Word: baraka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field Giraud conferred with Eisenhower, Lieut. General George Patton and General Sir Harold Alexander, helped direct the capture of Gafsa (see p. 14). A German plane flew low over his own jeep but did not strafe it. Giraud shrugged his shoulders, thinking of his baraka (a supernatural ability to escape death). Wherever he went he asked: "Le Boche-where...
General Henri Giraud has always had what the Arabs call the baraka, an uncanny ability to escape death and disaster. He is tall (6 ft. 4 in.), physically powerful, deeply religious, politically conservative, morally self-righteous. He has been wounded six times, cited for bravery 13 times...
...told the most about General Giraud is the General himself. A hitherto unpublished memorandum, which Giraud presented last spring to Marshal Henri Pétain, reveals the mind of a man who will need all the baraka in North Africa if he hopes to control the squirming ant heaps of political intrigue inside his present Government...