Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilgrimage of life goes on, other temptations crop up to distract and subvert the voyager. The temptations of the desert become, in America, the allurements of society...
...white desert of the geographic South Pole, a house of worship was dedicated last week. Its congregation: the 17 men of the Deep Freeze IV outpost in Antarctica. The "Chapel of Our Faith" began when the outpost's recreation building, where religious services had been held, caved in under the weight of snow. Navy Petty Officer C. Norman Engel, 37, of Spring Lake. N.J., requested permission to build a chapel in its place out of spare lumber, and all members of the group worked at the project-painting, decorating, or just shoveling snow...
...walks right back through the wall into his flat. He soon puts his strange talent to use in bank vaults and jewelry shops, signs himself "The Werewolf." When the Werewolf is captured by the police, he simply evaporates through the thick prison walls. But Dutilleul's powers desert him one night in mid-wall at his mistress' home, and passing Parisians take his walled-up cries for the whining of the wind...
...Antelope Valley Ledger-Gazette (circ. 6,612) the news was significant, and he printed it. AIR FORCE FORECASTS ACTIVITY DECLINE AT PALMDALE AIRPORT, read the Page One banner headline. The story below quoted Air Force officials who said employment at the facility on the edge of the Mojave desert, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, would be reduced from 3,542 to 1,972 by late...
...four-color cover cartoon, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht is a pirate whose wooden leg, watered by vodka, has taken root in a Red army helmet. The caption: "Forward into 1959." Tarantel's description of East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Kessler: "Third German to desert on the Russian front." Lead v. Gold. The man who puts the sting into Tarantel is a dapper, driving Berliner who goes by the name of Heinrich Baer. Baer has reason to hate the Communists. As a Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into...