Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must feed Moslems who do not eat pork, Brahmans who do not eat meat, Britons and Russians who take their tea with reverence. Pondering their task, they earnestly asked for an additional 500,000-lb. meat allotment. Their spokesman was George Mardikian, proprietor and chef of the famed restaurant Omar Khayyam. In a stately letter to San Francisco's bustling, chunky Mayor Roger Lapham he wrote...
...other airborne outfit, the Army decided to take a hot infantry division and convert it. The choice fell on the 82nd-once commanded by Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, then by his friend and deputy, Matt Ridgway. As Ridgway recalls it, his introduction to the airborne merry-go-round was brisk and informal. The War Department simply called him up and said: "Would you like to become airborne?" Said Ridgway, no hater of change or challenge...
Joseph T. McNarney, Omar N. Bradley, Walter Krueger, Brehon B. Somervell, Carl Spaatz, George C. Kenney, Mark Clark, Jacob L. Devers, Thomas T. Handy...
...Navy Journal said that "the details and the preparations for execution [of an amphibious invasion of Germany] have been worked out," and speculated that the operation might be commanded by Field Marshal Montgomery, with Monty's armies in the west passing to the command of Lieut. General Omar Bradley...
Bill Simpson is 6 ft.11 in. tall, lean and hard; he wears splendidly tailored battle jackets and trousers which fit him perfectly. But he is not pompous or dramatic, and is considered to be something like Omar Bradley in fatherly devotion to his troops. Despite his arguments with Patton, he is a great believer in all kinds of machines- especially artillery- which save U.S. lives...