Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...
Last week Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, senior U.S. ground-forces commander in Britain, surprised many a newsman and newsreader by publicly pooh-poohing talk of big casualties in connection with the invasion of Europe. Said he, in a speech to U.S. officers...
Discharges for physical and psychoneurotic disabilities are still running in the thousands monthly. Battle casualties are running at the rate of around 15,000 a month, may be expected to increase radically when the Second Front is opened, despite the pep talk of Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley to his troops...
...didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have to go some to get even." Prime Minister Churchill, General Eisenhower and Lieut. General Omar Bradley took part in a shooting match during a two-day inspection of invasion troops. They whanged away with a Tommy gun and a .45-caliber pistol (the Prime Minister also tried out a rocket gun), settled down to a match with a rifle. Their average score...
...Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful farmer and turkey raiser, is a fascinated and fascinating lecturer, and as a scientist has contributed substantially to progress in applied electricity and electronics...