Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat was still not imminent in days, or possibly even in weeks. But there was another threat. On Crete, held out of the great Rommel circus in the desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East...
TIME, July 6: "It was high time, past time that the British learned the use of dive-bombers in desert warfare...
...returned from Africa, the Army released a communiqué on American participation in the Libyan battle, which Lodge later described to the officers and men at Fort Knox. Said he: "The men who went over from this force were the equal of anything they encountered in the desert. They came out with three tanks, and they left nine less to chase them. The tank that you call the M-3 is the match of anything in the world...
That was the situation in the battle of Egypt when last week began. That was the situation when it ended. But football in the desert pays no attention to rules. Blocking and tackling went on even during time...
Eustace is a rooster. A few months ago, when some R.A.F. pilots first saw him at Gambut in the Western Desert, he looked as though disaster had struck the poultry kingdom. The pilots thought that scrawny, molting Eustace might as well be consigned to the pot; they traded three packages of tea for him. But on their way back to their station, Eustace's unhappy eye reproached their appetites. They decided to keep him as a mascot...