Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice for the entire civilized world...
Sutton Island, where the house is located, is about 270 miles from Boston, and near Mt. Desert Island. It can be reached once a day by mailboat from the mainland. There are no cars, or even horses on the island. Once on the square mile of land, there is nothing much to do but talk, pick berries, and fish off the docks for small sculpins, flounders, and jellyfish...
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleclc, veteran of World War II's western desert campaign, former commander in chief of British Forces in India, announced that he was going into business near Karachi, Pakistan, had already found a likely spot for his rug-weaving factory...
Died. General Alphonse Georges, 75, French military hero; of a cerebral congestion; in Paris. After battling Sahara desert tribes for 19 years, he rose to chief of staff (1935-39) of the French army, was in command of Maginot Line troops when France capitulated in 1940, escaped to Algiers, where he briefly joined De Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation. One of his most famous adventures was in 1934 in Marseille, when a Croat assassin attacked the car in which he was riding with Yugoslavia's King Alexander, killed the King (and France's Foreign Minister, Louis...
...carried out two basic ideas. The first is that power is the farmer's best friend. The second is that P.G. & E. is the one to supply that power. In California's 400-mile-long Central Valley, Jim Black's first premise proved right. Once a desert, Central Valley has blossomed into a rich farming area, made California the biggest U.S. producer of fresh vegetables. This has been due to cheap P.G. & E. power, which enables farmers to pump water from wells all over the valley...