Word: adna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcasting stations chiefly heard, Arabs listened most (in this order) to: Cairo, London, Jerusalem, Beirut, Sharq-el-Adna, Damascus, New York, Moscow. New York is static-bound (in summer) and in a poor position on the Arab's time schedule. Not enough Arabs know Russian to give Radio Moscow a good score...
During these years, many regular Army officers went softly to seed. A few-a very few-burned themselves out and annoyed their colleagues with pioneering studies in tactics and a rude espousal of modern forms of war. (Two examples: the late Billy Mitchell of the Air Corps; the late Adna Chaffee of the armored force.) Many cavalrymen, sensing the end of their service, went into the embryo tank service...
Chief of Array Chaplains William R. Arnold clasped Bishop Adna Wright Leonard's hand: "May the good Lord grant you happy landings." Replied the Methodist Bishop to the Catholic Monsignor: "Especially if one of them is the final landing...
With him perished his chief of staff, Brigadier General Charles H. Earth; his able, gregarious public-relations officer, Colonel Morrow Krum, onetime Chicago newsman, and Bishop Adna W. Leonard...
Died. Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, 56, who fought for, won, and organized the U.S. Army's first Armored Force (TIME, Aug. 18); of cancer; in Boston. Son of the late Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, onetime Chief of Staff, he served in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives in World War I, postulated more than a decade ago the principles of armored forces which the Germans adopted...