Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sighed, and pointed to the fat man. "That's Captain Auten, the owner of the movie. He's very important." The Captain stood up, drummed on the table with the side of his hand, and told a joke about a castaway and six nurses on a desert island. The women laughed and one of them said "isn't he funny...
Rommel, the Desert Fox, by Desmond Young. A brisk, well-written biography by a British brigadier who obviously admires his subject (TIME...
...Throngs of the faithful go to the scene of presumed visions and pretended miracles and desert the church, the sacraments and the sermon...
...Move. In Rangoon, Burma, Fisherman Gung Shai, after being stranded for 15 months on a desert isle in the Indian Ocean, reported that when a boat finally came to his rescue, its crew bemoaned the state of the world, advised him to stay stranded...
...this new venture, Sir Ernest's right-hand man is son Harry, a deputy chairman of Anglo American. Harry, who was educated at Oxford, and captained a company of Britain's "Desert Rats" against Rommel's troops in World War II, lives with his wife and two children in a smaller villa adjoining "Brenthurst," the palatial residence of his father and stepmother, outside Johannesburg. Harry likes fast cars and fast horses (he recently gave his father a prize colt, Ossian, which won Johannesburg's summer handicap the first time out). When Parliament is in session (Harry...