Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state like a business." What is particularly embarrassing is the fact that only after seven years and six separate audits did anyone notice anything amiss. "It was done very cleverly," said State Highway Engineer Ellis Mathes. "On the surface, the vouchers and everything looked very normal." Attorney General Robert Robson said that Turner had invented his own company name (The B.G.O. Investment Co.) and systematically diverted highway funds by means of 40 separate warrants ranging from about $3,000 to $17,500. Turner has four children and got an official salary of only...
...outnumbered police watched helplessly at times as the street gangs rampaged. One man, trying to escape from his burning car, was thrown back into it by a howling mob, and died. By the time the four days of race war and civil strife had run their course, the General Hospital's morgue was so crowded that bodies were put into plastic bags and hung on ceiling hooks. Government officials, attempting to play down the extent of the disaster, insisted that the death toll was only 104. Western diplomatic sources put the toll closer to 600, with most...
Released Piecemeal? Last week the passing of another general, G. Volkov, continued to provoke conjecture, fanciful as it seemed, about some sort of vast cabal. One rumor was that the generals had died together, either in a rocket accident or an airplane crash, and the death notices were being released piecemeal to hush up the tragedy. Another speculation, fed by the fact that this year's May Day parade in Moscow was predominantly a civilian show, was that the military had attempted a putsch and failed. The ringleaders were quietly executed, so this tale went, and the unreliable Soviet...
...fallen constellation of red stars had died "tragically." This is official jargon for accidental death, and it reinforced the disaster rumor. But the other officers, many on the retired list, were reported to have died of natural causes. Volkov, a retired air force technical expert, was 70 years old. General Mar-ikyan Popov, a staff officer in the Ministry of Defense, was 67 at the time of his death and General Penkovsky, 65. Despite the twelve deaths in 17 days, overall the mortality has been steady: 46 have died since the beginning of this year, only nine more than...
...them "full and unqualified support" and "volunteers" if needed. Last week China seemed closer still to getting a substantial foothold in the Middle East. The government of Syria, evidently angered at Russia's slowdown in arms deliveries, dispatched to Peking a delegation headed by Chief of Staff Major General Mustafa Tlas. One possible result of that mission would be an agreement to supply Syria with arms, thereby giving Peking its first substantial influence over a Middle East government -in the same way that Moscow bought its way into the Middle East by supplying arms to Egypt...