Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closely approximated bank night in a Turkish harem. But it had never seen anything quite like the uproar that rose last week when Wilbur ("God, how I hated that name when I was a kid") Clark threw open the doors of his sprawling $4,000,000, Bermuda-pink Desert Inn, invited the world to come in and help him get rich...
...done pretty well before that. He is a greying, boyish man who worked his way from bus boy to crap dealer to the ownership of a string of San Diego cocktail bars, moved to Las Vegas (in 1941) and blossomed into a full-fledged Nevada gambling impresario. But his Desert Inn sounded just too rich...
...room Desert Inn not only boasted a huge pool and a 35-ft. colored fountain, but in deference to gamblers with "kiddies," a king-size doll house. It had a temperamental French chef named Maurice who specialized in things served on flaming swords (said one awed gambler: "The guy gets excited over a steak"). It boasted a $22,000-a-week floor show, with a chorus line rivaling Manhattan's Copa Girls, Ray Noble's orchestra, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and a trio of French tumblers...
...Hardy & Hunted." In Egypt Maclean joined the S.A.S. (Special Air Service), a select, hand-picked force of parachute commandos who were dropped into the North African desert to destroy enemy installations. In 1942, Maclean, by then a captain, was sent to Persia, where in broad daylight he kidnaped Collaborationist General Zahidi and popped him into a plane bound for Palestine. It was ro wonder that when Prime Minister Churchill asked for the appointment of "a daring Ambassador-leader" to contact Tito's "hardy and hunted guerrillas," the choice fell on parachuting Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean...
Churchill has plaited into this book a whole fistful of narrative threads. It was a year of almost continuous desert warfare, of disaster in Greece and Crete, of crippling losses to U-boats, of devastating blitz, of almost unbroken defeat. What is much more remarkable than their coherent presentation is Churchill's astonishing grasp of innumerable and vastly complex situations as they arose and developed. The greatness of his leadership has never been better documented...