Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their frustration, Poet Miller went back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...
...place for a nunnery was General Toda Rai's palace at Mopu. The soaring bulk of Kanchenjunga opposite, surrounded by lesser peaks of the Himalayas, gave it far too spectacular an outlook, and no alterations could remove the memories of the women for whom it had been built. Nevertheless, the squat little general's offer was gratefully accepted by an Anglican sisterhood. Why the nuns left before the rains came, Rumer Godden tells in Black Narcissus...
Sister Clodagh, the Superior, found no trouble in keeping herself and the other four nuns busy. Anxious to help, the general bribed the suspicious natives to visit school and dispensary. His peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...
Emilio Lussu (Road to Exile) describes a year's Alpine campaign (1916-17). He describes two mutinies, devotes little space to actual fighting, writes mainly of personalities, is most effective on the salty subject of his fellow officers. General Piccolomini, lecturing to his staff on Coordination of Intellects, proved by irrefutable logic that a semicircular excavation on a nearby mound was a machine-gun emplacement. An adjutant major ventured to suggest that the general was wrong. "Oh. What is it, then?" sneered the general. "It's a latrine...
...General Leone got the bright idea of dressing a raiding party in suits of armor-"They admit of the most daring exploits in broad daylight," beamed the general, confiding that the Austrians had spent enormous sums trying to steal the patent on them. Eighteen volunteers, looking like medieval knights, heaved themselves over the parapet, clanked toward the enemy. The general turned to the colonel and said gravely, "The Romans owed their victories to their cuirasses." Two Austrian machine guns punctuated his remark. As he peered over the parapet, the last of the 18 armored Italians toppled over like tin cans...