Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left...
...Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney General Tom Clark who boasted a fortnight ago that "under President Truman more topnotch Communists have been convicted than during our entire history...
...from seeing any evidence of "incredible mismanagement," as Hicken-looper had charged, Oppenheimer thought Lilienthal and the commission had done a fine job-"far better than I thought it would be." Oppenheimer's nine-man General Advisory Committee agreed with his conclusion, he said. As for the supposed risk involved in sending radioactive isotopes overseas for research, he was sure that there was nothing to worry about. Even if the Russians managed to get some, said Oppenheimer, they wouldn't find them much help in making atomic weapons. Like wide-eyed students enthralled by their favorite professor, committee...
...woes, had joined the Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
Advance word on the combination crew is slim since it is untested in combat, but the general superiority of local oarsmen make it likely that Bolles can scrape together eight spare men with less trouble than Yale's Alan Walz...