Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pasha in the Desert. Morris soon sailed for home. Eaton quickly followed, to promote his own plan for the conquest of Tripoli. He proposed to place on the throne of Tripoli a pusillanimous and vacillating ex-Pasha, Hamet Karamanli, whose bloodthirsty younger brother Yusuf reigned supreme after having murdered one relative and frightened his rabbity senior away...
...28th day Hamet's fear of his brother got too much for him. He disappeared into the desert, but was soon brought back "cringing with apology." By April 6, the invaders were within 120 miles of their objective city, Derna. Starved and thirsty on half rations, they found water in a cistern in which two presumably murdered Arabs were floating. But Hamet and his followers refused to move on without more food...
This momentous experiment-the very first chain reaction-marked the beginning of the Atomic Age. The pile was successful. Long before the queasy process had been reduced to an orderly procedure, a gigantic, full-sized plutonium plant had been started at Hanford on the desert near Yakima, Wash. Advantages of the unattractive site: isolation, a good supply of Grand Coulee power and the Columbia River which would carry away the enormous heat generated in the piles...
Peril in Los Alamos. While the mighty plants were being built and the processes studied to make them run, another team of physicists was colonizing still another desert. In March 1943, a group led by Professor J. R. Oppenheimer of the University of California, gathered at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Their job was to design, assemble and test the atomic bomb itself. The pile constructors had struggled to keep their brain child from blowing up. The bomb men had the more deadly mission of finally blowing up theirs at the time and place that war demanded...
...Koreans in the Japanese Army should desert, "carrying their arms along," to the Communists. "Koreans should rise up immediately . . . fight their way back to Korea . . . build up a new democratic Korean republic...