Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalin: "As far as the U.S.S.R. is concerned, it considers that Mr. Wallace's program could serve as a good and fruitful basis [for agreement]. A peaceful settlement of differences between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. is not only possible but also doubtlessly necessary in the interests of general peace...
Hope in the Morning. With the rising sun, the sudden glare of urgent, unreasoning hope spread. Said a Greek government official: "This may mean the end of the civil war." Said the Manchester Guardian: ". . . An act of statesmanship." In Paris, Canard Enchainé kidded happily: "General de Gaulle has sent a message to Maurice Thorez, saying the door remains wide open . . . Gaston Palewski [one of the general's chief aides] has stated he is ready to engage in conversations with Jacques Duclos' chambermaid . . ." Newsboys brandished their headlines like victorious flags. "No more cold war," cried Franc-Tireur...
Flag Down. Shortly after sunrise on May 14, the Union Jack flapped down from its staff over Government House, on Jerusalem's Hill of Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, drove to the airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father...
Professor Donham was dean of the Business School until 1942, when he switched over to a teaching post. He has organized and given a course in Human Relations under the General Education program, and will continue teaching this subject next year at Colgate...
...talk" to proctors before last semester's finals, Mr. Leonard did tell us to keep ourselves in the background. However, what effect that might have had was more than counter-balanced by his general attitude which was more that of a tamer of leopards and wildcats than of a supervisor of examinations to be taken by Harvard students. The assumption seemed to be that students cheat, and proctors are there to catch the criminal delinquents who are serving at this institution. Mr. Leonard's tone and attitude was insulting to me as I listened and realized that after...