Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sipped anisette at bars and cafes, waiting for the broadcast. From five minutes to 8 onward, the television cameras focused on a clock with a large second hand counting off the time down to 8 sharp. Then, at last, an announcer intoned, "16th September, 1959. Elysée Palace. General de Gaulle, President of the Republic and of the Community, addresses the nation...
...time offered the world real reason to hope that the seemingly interminable struggle, which a year ago drove France itself to the verge of civil war, might be almost over. In Washington, Dwight Eisenhower spoke for millions in the Western world when he declared: "I am greatly encouraged by General de Gaulle's courageous and statesmanlike declaration . . . It is a plan that I think is worthy of General de Gaulle's efforts...
Somewhat bemused by all this, the 17 U.N. representatives accepted their flowers and settled down in Vientiane's decrepit Settha Palace Hotel and the firetrap Somboun Hotel, emptied for the occasion of its usual tenants-dancing girls and prostitutes. By general admission, the task before the fact-finders was roughly like trying to plow...
Trouble began when left-wing leaders of Sohyo, the General Council of Japanese Labor Unions, tried to pin the blame for the party losses on a right-wing faction accused of criticizing the Socialist campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing...
...command of all Iraqi troops in the Mosul area at the time of the rising. Dismayed by the unrest and drift toward Communism that have plagued Iraq since the July 1958 revolution against British-backed strongman Nuri asSaid, Tabakchali had almost certainly been involved in plans for a general army uprising against Kassem. But when the local commander in Mosul impetuously jumped the gun, Tabakchali hesitated fatally, then pulled back...