Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government agency to preserve what was left of the American forest. They were none too soon: in less than three centuries, the pioneers had ripped deeply into the continent's skin of trees, and another century might have left the U.S. as bare and barren as a desert. From the time of the first settlers, Americans had operated on a theory of chop and run; they had none of the Western European's respect for the wealth of forests. The mythological hero, Paul Bunyan, was a logger who uprooted trees with his bare hands...
...have ridden camelback at the pace of 100 miles a day comes to earth in an avalanche of maps and routes remeasured; not content with that, the debunker goes on to cite facts indicating that Lawrence was not a camel rider anyway and always preferred to cross the desert on foot...
Lawrence, the pint-sized, introverted Oxford scholar who rose from an obscure post in the Civil Service to lead the desert Arabs in revolt against their Turkish oppressors, was just the kind of lonely, romantic figure of danger the British needed in World War I to offset the unrelieved, anonymous four-year horror of the Western Front. His saga became legend. Hailed by many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world...
...hard enough to see what's coming for everybody." Formosa's new troubles lent added weight to a psychological campaign which the Reds have been waging against the Nationalists for months. The weapon: broadcasts by individuals on the Red ; mainland to individuals on Formosa, urging them to desert. General Huang Chi-chang, ex-Nationalist general who defected to Peking, addressed eight of his former colleagues by name in a recent broadcast: "Do you want to be America's slave, or do you want to be a great man? Do you want to follow Chiang to the death...
...winner of the Navy Cross and the D.F.C., holder of the three-kilometer air speed record of 753.4 m.p.h. set in a Douglas Skyray at Salton Sea, Calif., on Oct. 3, 1953; when he bailed out of his disabled Skyhawk jet bomber over California's Mojave Desert...