Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advance British patrols crossed the Tunisian border last week. Behind them the main force of the victorious British Eighth Army swept boisterously through Tripoli, pounded on over arid, rocky desert land on the heels of Rommel's retreating troops. But General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was ahead of his supplies, and he may have to pause until Tripoli is put in shape to serve him as a base...
Cactus and Rattlesnakes. Hayward raised $30,000 from rich clients like James Stewart and Henry Fonda, bought a small civilian school at Phoenix, hired six instructors. A little later he bought a one-mile desert tract outside the city, ploughed out the cactus and rattlesnakes, built a palacelike Air Corps training center with pastel-colored buildings, olive orchards, tennis courts and bright red Thunderbird insignia over everything. The first Thunderbird graduates got their diplomas only four months after the desert was broken, had a bang-up graduation party with pretty Hollywood starlets, listened to Hoagy Carmichael (also a Southwest stockholder...
Montgomery did not stay long at Shepheard's. At 5 o'clock in the morning the day after his arrival, he rode into the desert with a young cavalry aide...
Newsmen met Montgomery in his desert headquarters. He sat through the interview with a fly whisk balanced steadily on one finger. "I have defeated the enemy. I am now about to smash him," he asserted flatly, relaxed and asked: "How do you like my hat?" Then wearing a tank corps beret which he had picked up, he climbed into a tank and rumbled off after his troops like a skinny avenging angel...
...John Bunyan. Around Shepheard's rococo hotel last week the name of Montgomery was better known. To the desert headquarters of the busy little General poured fan mail from around the world. His two most prized: one from an Egyptian girl who thanked him "for saving Egypt"; one from an Atlanta Sunday school teacher, signed by all her pupils, who "pray for you every night...