Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third time in its 14 years in power, Canada's Liberal government was about to go to the country in a general election. For the first time in 30 years it would be without the leadership of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Last November he had given up the Prime Ministry; last week, having announced that he would not stand for reelection, he ended 33 years as a Member of Parliament...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who got bad notices in Britain with publication of his Crusade in Europe* last November, got even worse ones in the U.S.S.R. "Characteristic aversion for facts," shrilled Moscow's New Times. What's more, the general was just a "parade commander in chief ... a tool" of Winston Churchill, and a "true Wall Street lackey" who "falsifies history...
...Sociologist Robert S. (Middletown) Lynd: "Until the present year I have held the general position that it is unwise to engage a Catholic or a Communist to teach the social sciences ... I believe that a teacher should not teach with a bit in his teeth controlled by any organization able thereby to control what he teaches and omits from his teaching and with a record of exercising such control . . . Today, anti-communism is actively fostered as a blanket political weapon, and pressure is being brought on educational institutions to dismiss uncritically actual or alleged Communists ... I have accordingly changed...
Crusade in Europe (MARCH OF TIME), a film history of the Second World War in the West, based on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's bestselling book (TIME, Nov. 22), is the most ambitious film yet made for television. Sponsored by TIME & LIFE, it will begin this week over the ABC-TV network, will be seen over stations in 32 cities. Crusade will be released in 26 weekly episodes of 20 minutes each; the whole series may then be repeated twice...
...General Eisenhower turning suddenly to Vichy-French Admiral Darlan during the early days of the much-discussed Darlan deal. He jabs Darlan in the chest with a peremptory forefinger, snaps an instruction, and strides away...