Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politician's part. Last week the opportunity came: he was named Viceroy of India. By putting a military man in the post, Britain broke a precedent standing since 1858. At 60, the scion of a family of generals, the trooper who lost an eye at Ypres, who studied desert tactics under Lord Allenby and applied them triumphantly in the Cyrenaica campaign of 1941, the reader of Socrates, Shakespeare and Browning - this closemouthed, wry-humored Briton took over the Empire's most complex, burdensome political post and became ruler of 390,000,000 people...
...would fight to the last American, etc., etc. Six months later he was ready to admit that the British had a few good points: after bailing out of a flaming Fortress over Tripoli, he remembered enough of an R.A.F. pamphlet on how to find food and water in the desert to get back to his outfit. For the next four months, Navigator Rosenson had a birdman's-eye-view of the British at work in Tunisia. Back in London last week, he was singing new words and a new tune...
...Desert Victory (British Army Film & Photographic Unit; TIME, April...
...received from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...
...Doctrine. Under the new setup, tall, desert-bronzed "Mary" Coningham became boss of the Northwest African Tactical Air Force. His deputy was an American: Brigadier General Laurence Sherman Kuter...