Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alexander thinks an armistice unlikely. He passed on the opinion of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida: Mao Tse-tung has no wish to recall his veterans to China, where many would probably desert...
...recruiting lags, state factories discharge young workers and state employment agencies offer these unemployed a choice: join the Vopo or work in the uranium mines. Leaves are hard to get and liberty uniforms are kept under lock. Each month an average of 90 to 100 Vopos get fed up, desert to the west. Probably no more than 30% of the whole force are ideologically certified Reds. In fact, the Russians, like the western allies, show some reluctance to rearm Germans. Their two prize Nazi trophies, captured Generals Friedrich von Paulus and Walther von Seydlitz, are still in Russia, apparently...
...Posthumous son of the great Mahdi (messiah) whose desert dervishes laid siege to the undermanned British garrison of Khartoum in 1884, hacked to death its famed commander, General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon. Thirteen years later Kitchener avenged Gordon's death by smashing the dervishes at Omdurman. The Mahdi was already dead, but Kitchener ordered his tomb razed, his bones thrown into the Nile...
Three Gifts. Abul Huda Pasha had left out, because the deputies well knew, the pressures that aggravated Talal's illness and would tend to frustrate any King of Jordan. The young kingdom set up by the British in 1920 contains 37,000 desert miles, only a fifth of which is habitable. Jordan depends almost entirely on a British subsidy of ?7,500,000 annually to run its government, and its British-trained Arab Legion...
Songstress Peggy Lee has always liked the old (1932) Rodgers & Hart waltz Lover ("Lover, when I'm near you," etc.). She gets a picture in her head when she hears it: "The French Foreign Legion is riding out into the desert. They start off at a moderate speed. Then the leader raises his whip and swings it in the air. and they start to go faster and faster...