Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few British Laborites found a grain of comfort in what they heard from the U.S. They thought that there was political capital to be made from the crisis, even suggested the possibility of a quick general election this November. Explained one Labor M.P.: "A bit of American stonewalling, and we would go to the country with a dramatic clarion call to rally round retrenchment and reform rather than knuckle under to the dollar...
Three months after the Communist takeover, the once booming, bustling, bawdy metropolis is dying. Shanghai has been withered by Nationalist blockade, damaged by flood and typhoon, weakened by arrogant Red treatment of its foreign businessmen and consulates. Brisk, bald General Chen Yi, Shanghai's new Red mayor, standing on a platform in front of a huge oil portrait of Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung, told a handpicked group of "Shanghai representatives" what the Communists propose...
With only three years to go until the next presidential nominating conventions, Columbia University's Dwight D. Eisenhower began deftly sidestepping newsmen's questions as to whether he would be a candidate. Said the general: "I'm not going to go around thumping my chest and telling every newspaperman that I won't be President of the United States. That would be silly...
Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body. After 15 weeks' treatment he was able to go back to work, taking daily doses of stilbestrol. Periodic checkups showed continued improvement, but a few weeks ago Patient Twaddle fell downstairs, broke his neck and died...
...arranged to give his body to Massachusetts General for autopsy. What the pathologists found was the first known case in which both the original prostatic cancer and the outlying colonies in the bones had disappeared. The latter had been completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way of knowing whether Benjamin Twaddle's cancer would have recurred if he had lived longer. The significance of his case is that this once, at least, stilbestrol helped the human body to destroy a prostatic cancer and not merely arrest...