Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such dozer was Vice President Henry Wallace, presiding, who nodded while orators droned on. When Wyoming's desert-dry Senator Henry H. Schwartz suddenly bellowed: "Mr. President!", Wallace came to with a start, automatically declared: "Without objection it is so ordered." The galleries roared...
...Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to Mesopotamia; he has remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house at Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan, he was roaming the desert with Bedouins, learning their habits and earning their esteem...
...with the Arab Legion has been peacemaking. After learning Arabic so that he spoke it more fluently than the late great T. E. Lawrence, in 1930 he organized the Desert Patrol, part of Lieut. Colonel Frederick G. Peake's Arab Legion...
...whole force over. By World War II's outbreak, with the assistance of four English officers, he had formed the most potent Arab fighting force of the 20th Century. With some armored cars and Chevrolets carrying machine guns, Major Glubb organized his 5,000 Arabs into a desert blitzkrieg unit...
Though General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck will probably remain Commander in Chief of both, Cairo did not say who would lead the separate armies. Best guess: veteran General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson would take over the Western Desert Army, Australia's General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney the Syrian...