Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the days of Darius and Cyrus, the kingdom had descended far. It was still large (a fifth as big as the U.S.) and its mountains and desert contrasts were still dramatically scenic. But of Mohamed Reza's 15 million subjects a few thousand lived in lavish luxury, and almost all the rest in ragged poverty. At least eleven million of them had venereal disease. Most of the adults were opium addicts. Four out of every five children born died in infancy. Three out of every four who survived never learned to read or write...
...This is a marine biological station with her history of over 60 years; If you are from the Eastern Coast, some of you might know Woods Hole or Mt. Desert or Tortugas; If you are from the West Coast you may know Pacific Grove or Puget Sound Biological Station; This place is a place like one of these: Take care of this place . . . save the civil equipments for Japanese students; When you are through with your job here, notify the University and let us come back to our scientific home...
...much danger. They had to go in. When I looked at these faces and realized these things, I knew I could not stay aboard the PC. I had cast my lot with these men when we set out for the shore, and this was no time to desert. I put on my jacket, buckled on my belt, and shouldered my pack...
...have also assumed a certain responsibility for China's economic order. We can hardly desert the job gracefully and with credit until we are sure some order will...
...brothels. In 1911, he got excited by Italy's war on Turkey, but when his editors did not share his excitement, "I wrote a furious poem in blank verse, denouncing the peoples of the Western world for [their] complacency. . . . With men killing each other in the desert, I got a request to pick out the best jokes each week from the funny papers...