Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain James Roosevelt, observer extraordinary, showed up in Cairo last week, looking a little peaked and touched with the popular complaint known as Gyppie (for Egyptian) Tummy-a light form of dysentery. Part of his peakedness came from the fact that he had just been on a remarkable desert march and had his baptism of fire...
Gradually the terrible sandstorm died last week. Life showed itself again on the Western Desert: herds of gazelles, swallows hurrying nowhere, vipers with lessons in camouflage, strange dry sand snails-and fighting...
...also did some sketches of Paris. . . . Next I go to Turkey, they say, and then I am promised an opportunity to make sketches in Africa, the colors so sharp and clean-that will be good-the blue and the white, and sunlight in the desert. There should be good sketching in Cairo, don't you think...
...southerly wind abated, the Germans struck. They struck not in a foolish, perilous, single column near the coast, as the Italians had struck last fall; the wiser Germans drove on a broad front, in first three, then five columns. The southernmost columns were deep in the desert, out of effective naval range. In a few hours the Germans pushed 40 miles, almost as far as Sidi Barrani...
Yale "News," quality of the food is really exceptionally good," and "seconds are allowed on everything but milk and desert," but reports from Elis who have eaten in Houses would indicate that they favor the Cantabridgian edibles...