Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain and mud did not dampen fans' enthusiasm, especially the Arabs'. They lost their robes betting on their hero, Private Omar Koudri of the French Army, who was badly cut by the Fifth Army's Larry Cisneros of Los Angeles, Calif., fourth-ranking welterweight in prewar...
...Veterans of Foreign Wars were no less busy. V.F.W. Lobbyist Omar B. Ketchum advised against putting mustering-out pay too high. Said he: after all, its purpose is only to tide a man over until he gets a job. A further reason: it might block passage of a bonus bill. Twice he appeared before Congressional committees advocating a veterans' bonus like the last...
Mark Wayne Clark, Brehon B. Somer-vell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Joseph T. Mc-Narney, Ira C. Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Millard F. Harmon, Omar Nelson Bradley, Robert L. Eichelberger, George C. Kenney and Jap-imprisoned Jonathan M. Wainwright. Also held up were the promotions of two major generals: Thomas T. Handy and Walter B. Smith...
Most popular sights: Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, Jerusalem's Via Dolorosa (Christ's road to Calvary), Omar's Mosque and Solomon's Temple, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Church of All Nations, the Dead Sea ("every one of the boys would take a swim although the water is so salty that you can hardly stand on the bottom...
Engaged. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 19, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, tall, tough commander of the Army II Corps in Tunisia and Sicily; and West Point Cadet Henry Shaw Beukema ('44), son of West Point's famed geo-politicker; in West Point...