Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India I was stationed in the Sind desert for a tour. . . . We lived in British tents, ate British field rations. . . . Improvements to our camp were made by Indian coolies. We discarded the sorry sun helmets issued by the Army, as well as the unbearably hot G.I. khaki and wore British topees and summer battle dress...
...battleships and airplanes, repaired Joyce's doll house. Otherwise, toys being so scarce and costly, the children might have had no new ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...
...nearest thing to the U.S. that you will find in the Near East. Almost everyone speaks English. You'll hear many a Bronx accent. There are nice-looking girls, excellent beaches, and best of all, good cold beer. A bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon coming out of the desert is quite a treat...
Adding extra spin to the dancing is pert Vera-Ellen, the cutest musicomedy trick of the season. Surviving from the original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...
...frequency of the convulsions increases, the amplitude of their violence grows; the point of exhaustion has come within almost measurable range. There might be one or two more world wars but not a dozen. . . . Meanwhile [the] chief aim will be to create oases in the interregnum desert. ... In the so-called Dark Ages ... such oases assured the continuity of civilization: the monasteries first and later the universities ... on which no gendarme could set foot...