Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nehru had ten minutes before the London-bound airliner took off. Flanked by an admiral and a general, he approvingly reviewed an honor guard of the Indian navy. Only the day before, dedicating a new national defense academy at Poona, the Prime Minister, as a former believer in passive resistance, had pronounced it "odd" that "we who for generations have talked about . . . and practiced nonviolence should now be glorifying our Army, Navy and Air Force. Though it is odd, yet it simply reflects the oddness of life. Though life is logical, we have to face all contingencies, and unless...
Even once restless Yoshio Kodaira, who last year was convicted of raping 40 women and murdering eight, seemed to have caught the general spirit. "I am fortunate," he said as he marched to the gallows last week, "to be able to die on such a calm and peaceful...
...Western sector of Berlin on a summer morning of 1948, General Lucius Clay cast the die: "We will stay in this city." Clay's fighting faith mounted into the thunder of the airlift. And with their will, Berlin's people tipped the scales of decision; the Russians lifted the blockade when they realized that Berliners would not be intimated...
...Wall Street's betting during the British general elections of 1945. Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield...
...savage rite of French bourgeois snobbism." Philosopher-Scholar Etienne Gilson coupled the bac with alcoholism as the "twin scourges of the French people." Novelist René Barjavel complained in the weekly Carrefour, "[the bachot] is just a slip of paper proving that its owner has a minimum of general knowledge...