Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilmott Ragsdale, about whom I last told you when he was looping the loop with our desert glider students at Twentynine Palms and swooping down Mt. Rainier with the ski troopers, is now with the U.S. Army in Britain...
Best news of the week mates is that pay day (that costs on the monetary desert) looms large sometime this coming week. Exact date is not known. But before you start smacking you parched lips in anticipation we may as well take into consideration the fact that as far as having money to burn on the social pyres of Boston pay day will only be a mirage...
...shall . . . [enjoy] the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or viewing the scarlet glory of her blossoming cactus," cried oratorical Henry Fountain Ashurst at the finish of his Senatorial career two years ago. For 29 years in Washington the sesquipedalian Senator had dreamed aloud about the home state he so rarely saw. Last week the Arizona Tax Commission had a demand from him for a $72 refund. A year ago, he pointed out, he had established residence in the District of Columbia...
...Desert Victory (British Army Film & Photographic Unit; TIME, April...
...troops used had been trained for the desert, had only a few weeks' jungle experience. They never solved Japanese tactics, never exploited the jungle. Casualties through disease and action approached 100% in the original units; replacements had even less training, hence the troops became rawer and rawer. Commanders were no more prepared for the jungle than their soldiers; they showed a singular lack of knowledge and imagination in their conduct of the campaign...