Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting on his first year as head of the Veterans Administration, patient General Omar Bradley had sharp words for the ex-doughboys who would rather stay in the "52-20 clubs" (drawing $20 a week up to 52 weeks) than take low-paid jobs...
Then there is Broadway Actor Ralph Bellamy soberly reading Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (Victor, 4 sides), and Orson Welles smacking and grumbling solemn words from Pericles to Lincoln (No Man Is an Island; Decca, 10 sides). Less noisy: A Walk in the Sun (Disc, 6 sides), a chronicle ballad of the famed Texas 36th Division, sung by Composer Earl Robinson. Strictly for their fans is the patter of Jimmy Durante (Decca, 8 sides) and Bob Hope (Capitol, 8 sides...
...class of 1943: Joseph V. Cavanagh, Omar F. Elder, Quentin L. Housholder, David S. Kapell, John R. Mahoney '37, Frederick S. Pillsbury, William D. Pinansky, and Jerome E. Rosen...
...from the west bank of the Rhine in the battles of February and March 1945 (before the river was bridged) that Eisenhower regards as the third decisive phase The Germans again stood their ground too long; "... the war was won before the Rhine was crossed." In this phase, General Omar Bradley's tactical operations were "the equal in brilliance of any that American forces ever have conducted...
...nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...