Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three and a half hours later the Germans called his bluff. The tough, desert-hardened 21st Panzer Division and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim's veteran 10th moved forward against Fredendall's lightly held line. According to some reports, Rommel was lying wounded in a German hospital at Tunis; according to others, he had just been called to Russia. In any event, his hand and genius were clearly to be seen in what followed...
...Churchill warned. "They may come or may not come." The harbor of Tripoli must be cleaned up so that it can be used as a supply base for the Eighth Army, of which Mr. Churchill said: "I have never seen troops march with the style and air of this desert army. Talk about spit & polish! The Highland and New Zealand divisions paraded after their ordeal in the desert as though they had come out of Wellington Barracks, and there was an air on the face of every private, a look of that just and sober pride which comes from victory...
...symphony and variety shows, etc. Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...
Hawks, no niggardly director, moved 250 actors and technicians to location in the Arizona desert, began to shoot, speeding rushes to Hughes in Los Angeles by Hughes's private plane. Deeply moved by these first samples, Hughes demanded that Hawks spend more lavishly. By second week's end Hawks had become so appalled at Hughes's extravagance that he resigned. Hughes took over himself, set out as if he intended to outdo Hell's Angels, on which he spent $4,000,000, got back $8,000,000. When M.G.M. scooped him by rushing out a picture...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 52, skinny, acidulous Royal Air Force commander in the Middle East, would direct all air operations. His deputies: Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, the New Zealander who was his air operations chief in the desert, Major General Carl Spaatz, Chief of U.S. Air Forces in Northwest Africa...