Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oscar Hammerstein II could pretty nearly justify his title of No. 1 U.S. librettist just by pointing to the two best-loved of all modern musicals-Show Boat and Oklahoma! But he has also written the libretto or lyrics (or both) for such hits as Rose Marie, The Desert Song, The New Moon, Carmen Jones; his are the words of 01' Man River, Lover Come Back to Me, Stout-Hearted, Men, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and-the only song he ever wrote for himself and not for a show-The Last Time I Saw Paris...
...large, they were the fanatical, troublemaking variety of Nisei segregated at Tule Lake, Calif., for disloyalty. Until a year ago change of allegiance was so difficult to achieve that a Nisei had to commit treason or desert from the armed forces to make it. Now, thanks to a recent act of Congress, anybody can renounce his U.S. citizenship if the U.S. Attorney General finds it is not contrary to the national defense...
...came the only surprise about it was the lack of immediate German resistance. Monty had taken his own good time to put the last bit of detail into its tidy place. The 51st Highland Division, which always leads a major Montgomery assault, the gallant 15th Scottish Division, the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armored Division, all had rehearsed their roles...
...five-star admiral who had been Marshal Petain's Resident General of Tunisia. Cried Counselor Mornet: Esteva was the creature of Petain, who will soon be brought to trial in absentia. Esteva did not resist the Germans in Tunisia; instead, he appealed to the Free French to desert, conscripted Tunisians to help the Axis. "I ask death for the man who was content to accept dishonor...
...thousand years." In Radio, a husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says, "I'm stuck.") In The King of the Desert, two wise cracking pansies torment a stolid football player in a Hollywood bar until he knocks one of them out ("We'll fix you in Holly wood, Mister...