Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reporter picked up a presidential remark that every weapon the U.S. had would be made available to General MacArthur: "Mr. President," he declared, "you said that means every weapon that we have. Does that mean that there is active consideration of the use of the atomic bomb...
...Army duty officer at the Pentagon routed General Lightnin' Joe Collins out of bed at 5:30 one morning last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...
...hours politics and recriminations were forgotten. Democrats and Republicans drew together in a kind of stunned silence to listen to the latest news and the latest grim briefing on the situation from Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett and Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther, the Army's chief planner...
...population of 7,000 and has been a resort for the wealthy since the 1880s, expected to zoom to a bustling town of 12,000, and already last week, real-estate prices had started to spiral. At Augusta, Ga. (pop. 70,000), the chamber of commerce predicted that the general influx of population and prosperity would be equivalent to moving 100 large industries into the region...
...Ellenton, soft-spoken Mike Cassels, whose general store is the hub of social life in the community, closed his store one night last week, walked across the railroad tracks to the house he has lived in for 58 years. There he mused, "Makes you kind of jittery. It's kind of hard to think . . . We've got to decide where to go ... It's like having a death in the family, going to the funeral, then returning home and realizing the emptiness of the house...