Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of a starry desert night, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson poked a three-pronged drive into Syria. One prong from Palestine aimed up the coast at Beirut, Syria's No. i port; another from Amman in Trans-Jordan through the mountainous Druse district towards Damascus; the third from Iraq up the Euphrates Valley toward Deir-ez-Zor, one of the most important French garrisons in the country. Royal Navy units gathered off the coast and opened fire, R.A.F. bombers punched hard at airfields...
...great Italy must have an army, a navy and colonies. But the people who had fought so valiantly for freedom did not care to fight for strange lands; they could not love the African desert as they loved Lombardy and Tuscany. As poor, backward Italy staggered under the weight of military expenditures, her people went off, not to carve out an empire, but to labor in the Western Hemisphere to make enough money to return to Italy to die. Yet the imperial dream persisted...
...Arizona desert's edge, in a broad valley twelve miles northwest of Phoenix, there were high jinks one day last week. Sprung up from the cactus in less than five months under the watering of Hollywood money. Southwest Airways' new Thunderbird Field-acting as one of 48 kindergartens for Army Airmen-was graduating its first class. Hollywood starlets trailed inspecting officers down ranks of 102 grey-clad cadets, who had a hard time keeping eyes front...
...Baker called his show a sexhibition, invited visitors to cast their ballots for winners in the following categories: 1) Best company on a desert island, 2) Best company on a desert, 3) Best company, 4) Best, 5) Whew!!! By the time the show closed the visitors had voted a curvilinear nude by free-lance advertising Artist Harvey T. Dunn winner in all five categories...
...once-or else. After a few minutes the British applied the or else. It consisted of a severe bombing assault, a hail of artillery, and three ground attacks-one straight across the bridge, one which crossed the river farther up, and an airborne assault which landed in the desert behind the Iraqi, cutting off their retreat to Bagdad. By week's end, with the help of Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks (fighters) and Martin 1675 (bombers), the British had the situation well enough in hand so that pro-Axis Premier Rashid Ali El-Gailani and his Defense Minister were reported...