Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Truman, who had never aspired so high, was elected Senator, benefiting from the lists of dead people whom Tom Pendergast habitually voted every election. Five years later Pendergast was sent to the penitentiary for a $443,550 income tax evasion. Said Harry Truman: "I won't desert a ship in distress." Years later he added: "Tom Pendergast never asked me to do a dishonest deed. He knew I wouldn't do it. When Tom Pendergast was down and out, a convicted man, [people] wanted me to denounce him. I refused. . . . I wouldn't kick a friend." Newsmen...
Rugged German resistance had blocked anything remotely like one of Monty's old desert breakthroughs; the Allies had failed to bring off their prime objective of entangling the German armor in a battle of destruction. For the moment the Allied problem was to gather more power, wheel it into position, get another drive started...
...slim 12 then, a desert torch singer fresh from Syria's Jebel Druse country. But Ama's family frowned on such shamelessness ; they bustled her into marriage with Cousin Emir Hassan, chief of the Druses...
...logistics problem, not supplied to the point of oversupply, the Services insist on building the piles ever higher. Both Services could probably cut back many production pro grams even farther than they have. But both fear one thing deeply: that man power, seeing the war program ending, will desert in droves to the security of peace production jobs. They well know that after each war-plant cutback the workers prefer and seek peace-plant jobs, so that they will not soon be let out again...
...spit on Great Wall of China a multi-hued rainbow rises above Gobi Desert...