Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like Omar Khayyam's vintner, the U.S. is asking itself: what can it buy abroad one half so precious as the stuff it has to sell? The particular stuff the U.S. wants to sell is some $6 billion worth of surplus war goods overseas. The countries that could use it can't pay for it; the best they have to offer is credit...
...gentle Omar had said it well enough : Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door as in I went...
Sites for veterans' hospitals have long been picked by pork-barrel politics. Of the 97 hospitals now in operation, 52 are in small towns where there are often short ages of good doctors, attendants, dietitians. Aware of this, Four-Star General Omar Nelson Bradley came to a sharp decision when he took over the Veterans Administration: hospitals would henceforth be built near big city medical schools. Last week Oklahoma's windy Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas fired the first gun to scare Omar Bradley off such ideas...
Britain's Montgomery, asked by a high Hearstling to sell his memoirs, declined (see PEOPLE). Washington heard that General Omar Bradley's story is being written by an aide. Yet to be heard from: General Douglas MacArthur, who has frequently mentioned to callers that he is writing his memoirs...
...Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain, boss of Task Force 38, fought his valedictory last week somewhere off the coast of Japan. For cocky, 60-year-old "Jock" McCain a quieter job was waiting in Washington: helping General Omar Bradley run the Veterans Bureau...