Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saudi Arabia's Saud, only six months ago depreciated in most quarters as a well-meaning but confused desert chieftain, has become a much-sought-after man in the Arab world, and a key figure in U.S. hopes for a more stable Middle East...
...doing turned out to be exactly what her husband's Communist bosses wanted her to do, and as Huang spent more and more time in the company of his new love, he saw less and less of his old friends. Hung gradually persuaded the hypnotized actor to desert his family, his career and his principles. "I decided to throw in my whole lot for her sake alone," he wrote. "I wanted to share everything, good or bad, with her. I sold myself unconditionally and promised to do whatever she wanted...
...Nobody believes me!" sobbed Hollywood's foremost nonacting Cinemactress Marie ("The Body") McDonald. To tell the truth, few did. Marie's hair-greying tale-of being kidnaped, doped, raped and tossed into the California desert night-was as hard to believe as if it had all happened to her before cameras for a Grade B thriller. A Mexican and a Negro, youthful, hopped-up and zoot-suited, had abducted her in a car, claimed blonde Marie, after announcing: "We want your money, your rings and your body!" Some 150 miles away and 24 hours later, a truck driver...
...discovery goes back to 1921, when some British soldiers, digging in during a skirmish with Arab tribesmen, found, fragments of old buildings in the Syrian desert sand. Excited archaeologists dug deeper, came upon the Syrian city of Dura-Europos, which in about A.D. 250 had been a garrisoned outpost of the Roman Empire, athwart the main trade route between Antioch and Seleucia. Dura had a large Jewish community and a sizable synagogue. On the synagogue's walls the excavators found murals illustrating Old Testament stories, with certain Talmudic touches added...
...Force, the first truly international police force in history. Its scope, of course, was and still is limited; but its significance, if it succeeds in Sinai and Suez, is broad indeed. As the armed representatives of the will of the U.N., the few thousand soldiers now in Egypt's desert could become the nucleus of a permanent U.N. Police Force--a force which would be an important instrument in giving U.N. decisions the strength...