Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their other troubles, the Greek Reds were still haunted by the specter of Markos Vafiades, the hard-bitten guerrilla commander with the fierce mustache, who had been purged for Titoist leanings (TIME, Feb. 14). Nicholas Zachariades, secretary-general of the party, had found it necessary time & again to issue orders against the singing of old party songs about "my dear little Markos." There were still no songs about the new guerrilla commander, Georgios Vrontissios, alias Goussias, a former printer whose mustache is considerably less impressive than his predecessor's. According to the likeliest of many conflicting reports from...
...diplomat and as an administrator. He has had his full share of criticism. He has been accused of being naive, bossy, publicity-conscious. His relations with Ambassador Grady are on the cool side, but he gets along well with Generalissimo Papagos. King Paul frequently joins the U.S. general on inspection trips to the fighting areas. Greeks who like Van Fleet, and most do, say that he is sincere san paidi-"like a child...
...candor and energy-they say hard-working Americans do not know how to live. To Greeks he typifies the vast and somewhat incomprehensible power of the U.S. A few days ago, near Van Fleet's headquarters, an old woman in black pushed past a guard and asked the general's aide if that was "Van Flit" coming down the steps. When the surprised officer nodded, the woman crossed herself, murmured "God bless him," and hurried away...
...indeed, the Tories went. In the last major election test before next year's general elections, they inflicted a stinging defeat on Britain's Labor government, which was still sore from the beating it took at last month's London County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke...
Conservative Party Chairman Lord Woolton hopefully called last week's voting "a miniature general election." Jubilant Conservative politicians flatly predicted a Conservative victory at the national polls next year. Nevertheless, both sides realized that less than two-fifths of Britain's electorate had voted, that local contests do not necessarily forecast the country's attitude in a national election. Said a railway worker in Streatham: "Yer can't judge by local elections. They vote against you if they don't like yer face...