Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle country, grass spread thick and tall over the grazing lands. Ponds and wells, for the first time in years, were filled to the brim. Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming were blanketed with fields of wild flowers. Cactus blossoms ranged over the desert, turning the dun earth blue and yellow and orange. On the flanks of Colorado's mountains, snow reached farther down than the oldest citizen could remember. Snow-fed streams would run full this summer...
...year of war would have a bumper wheat crop to help feed hungry Britain; 2) that Dust-Bowl farmers would have money in their pockets to carry them through another dry spell; 3) that pessimists who thought the West's marginal wheatlands should be given back to the desert had reckoned without the whim of changing weather...
...fluent Chinese (talkative Mr. Donald never spoke Chinese, disliked Chinese food) and a half-dozen Asiatic dialects, Expert Lattimore's career is a colorful one. Now only 40, he has by turns been a businessman, newspaperman, explorer, and scholar at Johns Hopkins. For years he lived in the desert in native yurts, native fashion. Last week, with Russia at war and Japan eying inner Asia acquisitively, Mr. Lattimore's appointment and the help he will direct bore new significance...
...swift waters of the Colorado River last week turned from their bed. Flashing in the sun, they poured westward across the desert, through the mountains, came at last into the thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
General Rommel met the main British force with one of his ambiguities- he sent the full steel strength of his primary defensive tank park onto the offense. They counterattacked. On that first day a violent tank battle swirled on the desert. Besides his tanks General Rommel turned his anti-aircraft batteries against the advancing British tanks. The battle seemed to go geographically in favor of the British, who nevertheless suffered terrible metal losses...