Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional reporter would have given his left leg to get. He had been in England under bombardment, in North Africa with the British Empire forces, in the Albanian mountains with the Greeks. He had inspected ordnance, shipping, signal corps, maintenance depots. He had slept in sleeping bags, on desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules. He had talked to kings, prime ministers, generals, admirals. As a lawyer he was well equipped to digest what he heard. As a soldier (he commanded New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, won the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Donovan talked to General Sir Archibald Wavell, then spent two weeks with the British forces. He saw them in action, decided that two things were combining to defeat Italy in Egypt and Libya: 1) the individual superiority of the British soldier; 2) the fact that the Italians made the desert their enemy (i.e., shut themselves up in Maginot-like forts), while the British made it their ally. From North Africa the footloose Colonel went to Athens, where he found the British laying plans to widen their front. The Greeks were frightened of too much British aid, thought it would provoke...
Hacking up the stand taken by Professors Hocking and Mother, other sponsors of the rally also prepared to desert, and at least one prominent Boston clergyman, Dr. Albert C. Dieffenbach, had taken his stand with the professors who retracted their support...
...judge tolerantly termed him "a confessed cheat," observed that here was one hick who had trimmed city slickers. Broker Gerard, still friendly enough with Scotty to shake hands, hoped at least for a cut on the $1.10 Scotty took from tourists who came to gaze at his fancy desert residence...
...Nazi, Theodore Newman Kaufman, 31, is a Manhattan-born Jew who has been an advertising man, once published the New Jersey Legal Record, now runs a successful theatre ticket agency in Newark, N. J. Widely traveled, he is especially fond of the Sahara Desert, where, he says, "you look at the horizon all day long and feel that you are staring at eternity." In Biskra he frequented the Algerian salon of Winston Churchill's cousin, Sculptress Clare Sheridan (Arab Interlude). Germany Must Perish! is his first book. "Strictly a one-man job" (he claims he has no organization...