Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free French at Lake Chad were spoiling for action. Some 1,200 miles to the north, in Libya's Fezzan Desert, the Italians were sitting in fortified strongholds. Over that long trail of rocks and sand the Free French moved to attack. The sun was broiling hot. Sometimes their trucks got stuck in the sand a dozen times in a hundred yards. Cattle driven ahead for fresh meat fell lame, had to be slaughtered...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...
...curve of the coast, at Wyndham, the Zeros struck again. At the oft-hit port of Darwin, they completed a pattern of things to come: Darwin, Wyndham, Broome are places to be invaded. With them in hand, the Japs would command Australia's northern coast, the wild interior desert which lies between the upper coast and southern Australia...
Director Edward H. Griffith was apparently so preoccupied with nature that he let his story go to pot. Paramount had given him plenty (Madeleine Carroll & Stirling Hayden) to work with. Beauteous Miss Carroll, once picked by enthusiastic collegians (Columbia) as the most desirable partner for a desert island, is admirably equipped for her tantalizing role. Ex-Seaman Hayden, blond and Apolloesque, is unable to make much...
...surprise tactics of the advance: a feint across the desert, then an attack in force along the coastal road...