Word: prome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eater in Catherine was not enough for Actress West; she insisted on encompassing the Empress as well, and far from spoofing the imperial manner, tried to outdo it. When a courtier reminded her that "They also serve who only stand and wait," she replied "Quoting Milton's 'prome', I presume!" She had sponged up enough history to soak her play with wars, uprisings and palace intrigues. But the excitement was conveyed in dialogue that had the specific gravity of lead, and the results, when not merely sedative, were often crushing...
...Water supply was insufficient in the hot wastelands north of Prome and Toungoo and, with the Japs constantly cutting our rear, we often were cut off from watering holes...
...conquers Burma must win the rivers and their valleys. With them go Burma's chief port, Rangoon; the oil of Yanangyaung, on the Irrawaddy ; the ruby and silver mines; 85% of all the precious tungsten in the British Empire; Burma's rubber plantations; the inland cities-Pegu, Prome, Mandalay-where Burmese kings once ruled their separate realms, and the British were never quite at home...
Advance on India. Toungoo was one of the two points in central Burma where Allied troops had taken a stand against the Japs advancing from the conquered south. The other was Prome, where General H. R. L. G. Alexander had, to some extent, refitted his battered British Imperials after their retreat from Rangoon. Last week they had to retreat again. They abandoned Prome, but they were still between the Japs and the valuable oilfields of Burma's Irrawaddy Valley...
...fear of being flanked by another Jap cross-thrust, the British on the Irrawaddy River pulled back their lines toward Prome...