Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to give them their just desert to sound off after a score instead of drowning them out," Bingham told band manager Paul A. Lucey '51 yesterday...
Good Advice. Last week, Johnson added a third slick-papered magazine to his string: Tan Concessions. It was a big cut below the other two. Blending a combination of passion ("Desert Madness," "My Secret Sin") and come-hither morality ("Is the Chaste Girl Chased?"), Confessions looked to be just what it probably will be-a moneymaker for go-getting Publisher Johnson. Said he: "We polled the Negroes and found that they read more confession magazines than anything else." He was well aware that "a lot of it is poor stuff," but argued that the magazine's home-service section...
Cotten and his men decide to desert and go to Texas and the Confederacy, but they have a change of heart when the Kiowas, infuriated because Chandler has executed their chief's son, storm the fort. With the garrison about to fall, the Indians indicate that they will settle for Chandler. He marches alone into their encampment to what-judging from his screams-must be a gaudy death...
...five-inch shelf of flying literature was done by French Airman Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars, Flight to Arras). He was that rare 20th Century blend, a courageous man of action whose deepest values were spiritual. On his long airmail flights over desert and ocean, and on military missions over doomed France in 1940, his brooding imagination conceived a vision of life in which God, soul and the brotherhood of man shone through and outweighed all commonplace striving...
...Wisdom of the Sands can be read as a partial blueprint of the moral and ethical world Saint-Ex envisioned. As with most such plottings of mystical patterns, it is a hard one to follow, in this century or any other. In Wisdom, Saint-Ex imagines himself as a desert prince sharing his accumulated wisdom with his subjects (he loved the Sahara and the tradition-ruled life of its people). He is a benevolent despot, brave, warlike, just and unsentimental, the kind of man with whom T. E. Lawrence would have been proud to share a tent...