Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress, and its Smith Act ruling that it is not illegal to advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades, you've got what you wanted. The Supreme Court has handed it to you on a platter. Come...
...attack; and they swallowed the carefully planted notion that General Patton was waiting to turn a whole Army group loose on the Pas de Calais. To meet the Pas de Calais attack that never came, the Germans kept 19 divisions at the ready that might have made Utah and Omaha a disaster for the Allies...
Nearly Faultless. Invasion goes on to do for Operation Anvil-Dragoon in the South of France what it does for Neptune-Overlord. The fighting for the southern beaches was a combat lark compared to the close call at Omaha. Naval support was close to perfection, and Morison, who saw service on no fewer than eleven vessels, thinks the South of France invasion was the "nearly faultless" large-scale operation of the entire war. One thing the U.S. fighting sailor will readily acknowledge, whatever his theater: no other fighting arm in World War II has found a historian with the flair...
...employees of the United Press are charged to get the news ahead of the Associated Press, write in a style that "flames like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield," and make their dispatches understandable to "the milkman in Omaha." They do not do all of these things all the time, but in 50 years of shooting for those mixed objectives, they have made the U.P. the world's second-largest and most enterprising wire-news merchant, and the shirtsleeve college for thousands of U.S. newsmen. For a profile of hardfisted, bustling U.P. on its golden anniversary...
...staffers who keep its hundreds of news printers thumping out 60 words a minute, in 45 languages, around the clock. Their copy must be crisply written to escape the editor's spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman and the candelabra...