Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-carpeted, leather-chaired office on the sixth floor of Tokyo's Dai Ichi (No. 1) Building, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur puffed at one of his 17 pipes (including five corncobs) and ran a careful eye over the words he had penciled on two sheets of blue-lined paper. Satisfied, he touched the buzzer, handed the sheets to an officer and said: "Have this released to the press...
What he had written was in keeping with the general's style and past performance: "In this hour of momentous import, national and international, temporal and spiritual ... I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to which I might be called by the American people...
Frequently drawing on General Marshall's now historic Commencement speech of last June, the President stated that the avoidance of snap judgments will be the key to smoothing any troubles ahead...
Tickets for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming matches, on sale in the Indoor Athletic Building, will cost 75 cents for general admission to the 2:15 o'clock session and $1.50 for reserved seats for 7:15 o'clock tonight. HAA coupons will not be accepted...
Robert Kiphuth, director of Yale athletics, last night predicted a general investigation of Ivy League hockey officiating as a result of the near-riot that terminated Wednesday's Harvard-Yale game in New Haven...