Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the first press conference any American President had ever held beneath a protective umbrella of fighter planes. In the desert heat, beneath the roaring planes, General de Gaulle and General Giraud shook hands while photographers' flash bulbs popped. The President said this was a momentous moment...
From an Arab leader, 2,500 miles across the desert from Casablanca where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were discussing policy, came a call last week for the extension of the Atlantic Charter* to the Arab world. Said the Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan...
...year 1941 was still Hitler's year. His military and political alliances were now worldwide, built on the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan. His armies swept through the Balkans, across the African desert to Egypt's gates. But the Battle of Britain had been lost, "and in June 1941 the Führer sought security elsewhere than in England's conquest. The Wehrmacht threw its might against Soviet Russia, rolled to Moscow's suburbs before winter fell. Then the tide turned...
...Road is a ribbon along the fair, azure sea. It wanders past graves inscribed "This is hallowed ground. They died in the service of their country." It twists up arid escarpments. It streaks, hot and straight, for miles across the desert sands...
...Eighth was holding a thin, 40-mile front between the Qattara Depression and the sea. For two years the troops of the Eighth had waged a seesaw desert campaign. Sometimes they had been badly led, never had they had adequate equipment. They had retreated before Graziani singing: "Oh, Sidi Barrani-Oh, Mersa Matrûh-The Eyties will get there, then what will we do?" Then under Wavell they had driven Graziani westward to El Aghéila. Rommel had punched them back. Under Auchinleck, Cunningham and Ritchie had recovered that ground. Again Rommel had punched them back, this time...