Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty-mile-an-hour gales shredded tents from Dan to Beersheba, tossed flimsy huts into the air and tore ripening oranges from trees. Thirty-six thousand refugees were homeless in Gaza. Trapped by rising waters, refugees died in Jordan. Part of the Negev desert that had been arid for as long as the oldest inhabitants remembered was suddenly laced with freakish torrents of brown water that cut off a camp and threatened starvation. Soldiers waded waist-deep to isolated camps, tightened sagging guy ropes, improvised drainage canals and dished out hot food. Israeli planes dropped food and medicine...
Decision Before Dawn (20th Century-Fox), like the controversial Desert Fox, goes behind enemy lines of World War II for a sympathetic view of a German soldier. But unlike Marshal Rommel, the new film's hero is no Nazi who turned against Hitler too late and for the wrong reasons. He is a sensitive young Luftwaffe medic (Oskar Werner) who becomes a U.S. spy out of convictions that outweigh his queasiness at being pitted momentarily against his countrymen...
Words to the Darkness. What happened next to Barabbas-whether he retired to the desert of Judah or joined the Samaritans or simply continued his banditry-Novelist Lagerkvist does not attempt to say.* But Lagerkvist does picture him in two final scenes. As an aging slave of the Romans, Barabbas meets a Christian whose piety nearly converts him-but when threatened with death by the Romans he backs out. No, he says, he has no god. It is true that he has inscribed the name "Christos Jesus" on his slave disc, but that is only "because I want to believe...
...Carter does not rely solely on the desert varnish to prove his case. Along the coast of Southern California are many kitchen middens, where ancient Californians tossed refuse from their shore dinners. Middens containing the handiwork of recent Indians are full of well-preserved shells. In middens containing fine stone blades (probably from the Folsom period), the lime of the shells is partly leached away. Middens that have lost all their lime have stone artifacts much cruder than the Folsom type. There are even older middens with only rough stone flakes and grinding slabs. These sometimes have two or three...
...Desert Varnish. Anthropologist Carter uses an odd geological time-recorder to support his theory that the Folsom or Sandia hunters invaded a long-inhabited hemisphere. On the deserts of Southern California, many firmly rooted stones are covered with dark brown "desert varnish." No one is sure how this is formed or how long it takes to form, but Folsom-type spearheads found on the desert never show more than a trace of it. The crude weapons of simpler folk are often varnished thickly, and the cruder they are, the darker is the varnish. This is pretty good proof, Carter thinks...