Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world seemed at hand. The sun beat down on the rock-strewn desert and struck shimmering heat waves from the flat, metallic surface of the Dead Sea. In a room of the community, the elders took council; they were sure that the men of darkness would soon be upon the Children of Light. Reports had come that Vespasian's legionaries, clanking up the road from Caesarea, were already at Jericho, less than seven miles to the north. Before they moved on Jerusalem, the Romans would surely fall upon the Community by the Dead Sea. Perhaps then, at last...
Erwin Rommel was a gallant military figure in a war where material was replacing personality and global strategy was submerging tactics. He became a living legend among the enemy troops and an almost admiring British and American public. The Desert Fox illuminates this remarkable personality without detracting from the romantic aura surrounding...
...days passed, a flurry of rumors swirled like the desert sands. An Iranian gendarmery column reported itself close on the heels of a group of native women and children believed to have the foreign woman among them: a nomad tribesman told of seeing a white-faced woman riding on muleback. The governor of remote Iranshahr reportedly got a message from Dadshah himself, saying Mrs. Carroll was "alive and well'' and offering to free her if granted amnesty. A doctor and nurse, sent by the U.S. embassy in Teheran, hurried to the spot. This week, in a desert gully...
...development plan is not yet finished. North of the area fed by the Alvaro Obregón Dam stretches 300 miles of riverless desert. Beneath the parched earth lies a supply of fresh underground water. Engineers are already at work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation...
Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). People of the Desert, pictorial report on the Navajo Indian and the Blue Men of Morocco...