Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...models remind me of the fierce, beady-eyed road runner, an unpleasant bird of the desert that never flies but runs along the ground, then pauses with its tail in the air while it takes a greedy look for its prey. SELENA MCKINLEY Los Angeles...
...Midair Collision!" Twenty-five minutes after Carr's DC-7B took off from Santa Monica, Northrop Test Pilot Ronald E. Owen, 36, swished skyward from an airport some 50 miles to the northeast, near the desert community of Palmdale, in an F89 Scorpion twin jet interceptor. The Scorpion, equipped with new radar, was soon to be returned to the Air Force. Owen and Radarman Curtiss A. Adams, 27, were flying a final chore: three runs at another jet 25,000 ft. up, to test the ingenious radar mechanism that puts the interceptor on the trail of invading aircraft, fixes...
...living embodiment of the "poetry of capitalism." His cheerful cry. "Open the world to the people!'' was echoed by the industrialists and investors of his time. The Suez Canal was to be only a beginning: De Lesseps dreamed of making an inland sea in the Sahara Desert, and of uniting Paris, Moscow, Peking and Bombay with a vast intercontinental railway...
...when the practice was halted and the fellahin laid down their primitive picks and baskets, the work went on faster than before with free labor and the rapid development of steam-powered excavators. De Lesseps' real roadblocks lay not in the sand and rock of the Sinai desert but in the chancellories and salons of Europe. In France envious rivals-including the Saint-Simonian Socialists-tried to take the canal away from De Lesseps. In London successive British governments first derided the idea, then worked to block construction of the canal, then bought shares in it, and finally occupied...
This kind of assumption underlies the structure of the book. But in the movie it is arrived at, perhaps too directly, as the blind girl's discovery. The director, Jean Delannoy, seems to conjure up the desert he finds in the pastor's heart, in a way that comes near being brutal, especially in the last scenes...