Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York is a colonial city, a camping ground. All the hostility, all the cruelty of the world are present in this most prodigious monument man has ever raised to himself . . . this immense, malevolent space . . . this desert of rock...
...Center would crowd the coyotes out of a 100-square-mile patch of desert, probably somewhere near Boulder Dam or Grand Coulee. Site specifications called for level country surrounded by hilly terrain for "shielding hazardous developments," one million horsepower of cheap electric power, a steady flow of cold water at a rate of 250,000 gallons a minute. By 1955, said the Army, some 4,000 men would be working at the Center...
...Great Experiment. In his Tokyo headquarters, a palatial oasis of paneled halls, cut-flower arrangements, kimonoed servants and monogrammed silverware, set in a desert of bomb-&-fire rubble, General Douglas MacArthur watched his wards at work. "Satisfactory," was his pronouncement on the election...
...Gauguin the dashing young sailor, Gauguin the successful banker and stockbroker, and even to Gauguin the diffident "Sunday painter." But at 35 he quit his job and left his wife and five children in order to paint full time. Then Paris was different. It was, said Gauguin, "a desert for a poor...
...weather" room for testing personnel and equipment under extreme temperatures, torrential rain (up to 15 inches an hour) and high winds or, through sun lamps, desert heat...