Word: connor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penn debaters, George O'Connor and William Ten-Cate, both juniors, were entertained before and after the contest by the members of the Harvard Debating Council. The judges were Dr. Wm. Sutcliffe, instructor in English, Mr. George D. Strayer, Director of the Boston School Survey, and Mr. James E. Allen, Jr., Administrative Secretary to the Faculty of Education...
When Italy surrendered last September, three high British officers were glumly killing time in a prisoner-of-war camp near Florence. Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
General O'Connor's capture was a particularly bitter blow; he was field commander of the North African Army and General Wavell's right-hand man. When next heard of, Air Marshal Boyd was commanding the camp carpentry shop, Generals O'Connor and Neame the chicken yard. In the wild confusion of Italy's debacle they escaped, vanished into the Italian countryside. This week London announced that they had reached the Allied lines. They were together through the long trek; their route was secret...
...duty: For Hagg, none other . . . sources near the new muster-master intimate he will be shovin' off for the mine sweeping racket again . . . Understand, that's purely tentative, old man . . . Another possible change in the regimental setup, they say, would send O'Connor to Fisher's Island on probationary status . . . Sounds fantastic, of course, but it's fannin' the breeze anyway . . . I didn't believe it myself . . . of course, though you can ask some of the guys in the first platoon; they started it . . . And, confidentially, I think that's a lot of bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen...
Oops. In San Jose, Calif., a vagrant in court recovered when Judge Percy O'Connor himself recovered, corrected his ringing "Thirty years!" to "Thirty days...