Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy pulled out of Shanghai so hastily last April that it failed to give its 800 Chinese civilian employees proper two weeks' notice. Last week, demanding full pay for the past two months (during which they did not work), workers surrounded the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, refused to let anyone leave...
While shouting masses paraded to celebrate the Communist takeover, U.S. Consul General John M. Cabot decided to run the blockade. Hands in pockets (to avoid any possible charges of having used violence), Cabot advanced to the door; the workers refused to let him pass. "There is nothing we can do," said Mr. Cabot and turned back, hands still in his pockets. His staff broke out K rations...
...designate after the recent election, sounded out the other parties for a coalition whose foremost task would be to hold a plebiscite on the royal question. The Socialists, led by able Paul-Henri Spaak, rejected Van Zeeland's proposals, ordered their powerful trade unions to prepare for a general strike. Led by Roger Motz, the Liberals also rejected the Catholic proposal. The Communists and their bosses such as Edgard Lalmand were not consulted. They have been steadily fading as a factor in Belgian politics, and nobody consults them these days...
Before a crowd of 40,000 in the port city of Pola this week, Marshall Tito delivered his most important general policy statement of the year. He said that the Yugoslav-Greek frontier will be "gradually closed...
...seven months since he was overthrown as El Salvador's president, diabetic, aging (60) General Salvador Castaneda Castro has occupied a cell in the capital's drab concrete Central Penitentiary. Cut off from his hair dye and face powder, the vain old man has watched his mane resume its whiteness, his complexion its Indian bronze. Guards passing his tidy cell peer in to see their model prisoner seated on an army cot, thumbing through his meager four-volume library as he awaits trial on charges of "colossal graft...