Word: sandstorms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually the terrible sandstorm died last week. Life showed itself again on the Western Desert: herds of gazelles, swallows hurrying nowhere, vipers with lessons in camouflage, strange dry sand snails-and fighting...
...location for the desert picture Beau Geste in the sandy wastes of Arizona's Buttercup Valley, 19 miles east of Yuma. In Phoenix the baby got sick. After working a while, Coop wanted to phone Phoenix about her, but the nearest phone was in Yuma and a wild sandstorm was blocking the wooden road that led out of the Valley to the State road. Coop knew he could hitchhike to Yuma if he could reach the State road. The cowboy reached it on a camel...
...brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer. While the main Australian force chased Italians along the coast, a mechanized force branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force straddled the highway to Tripoli and waited...
...Mussolini last week (see p. 21) welled ominous indications that a new campaign was about to be launched-possibly in a matter of a few days. The big question was where. The war, slowing to a lull in the Balkans and in Greece, bogging down in a seven-day sandstorm at Tobruch, flaming fitfully in the ragged weather over Britain, gave little clue. But the British, sure trouble was coming, thought they knew the answer (see below). Meanwhile the important military news of the week was the story of the battle of the Illustrious (see col. 2), an engagement which...