Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood and Beau Geste. The French conquest of North Africa had barely begun. It was Bazaine and his fellows who were to change the lonely Legionnaires from cattle rustlers and vegetable gardeners in uncomfortable coastal posts to the legendary, kepi-ed figures firing through the loopholes of a desert fort...
...Moroccan Chief AbdelKader indicated his disrespect for French authority by regaling his followers with nine camel-loads of human heads. Next he taught them how to fight in the desert by ambushing a French army, practically annihilating it. Nobody learned the lesson better than Sublieutenant Bazaine, who was wounded, promoted to lieutenant. Later Bazaine learned to assume his famous poker face as head of France's Bureau arabe (military intelligence) at Tlemcen, Algeria...
Boston, as we have been howling for the past few weeks, is a jazz desert. Art Hodes is undoubtedly good, but Lawrence remains inaccessible except for the hardiest hikers and most jazz-starved enthusiasts. And the commendable plans of a group of Lowell House Freshmen to import bands for series of Saturday afternoon jam sessions are destined to be stillborn unless an angel appears suddenly...
...more miles away. They shun paved roads and blindly poke their painful way across country. Speeds are four to six miles an hour. For days on end, service troops spend less than four of every 24 hours in bed. They try to catnap in trucks grinding across the choppy desert; it is like sleeping in a concrete mixer...
...many of the 2,000,000 U.S. soldiers already overseas are desert-seared, the Army will not say. But D.T.C.'s wartime future is assured. For troops come out confident of handling what lies overseas. Says one veteran: "After this, wherever they go, they'll be happy...