Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through hard work and good intentions alone that Herter influenced postwar history. After the Truman Administration proposed the broad outlines of the Marshall Plan in June 1947, the Bostonian, then a Republican Congressman, proposed establishment of a House Special Select Committee on Foreign Aid and became its chairman. After two grueling months of surveying Western Europe's plight-Herter had directed the members to leave wives and tuxedos at home-the committee wrote a compelling, detailed report on what was needed to revive the prostrate continent. Above all, it was Herter's support and advocacy, along with Arthur...
...Huskies have two 22 ft-plus broad jumpers, who will give rejuvenated Mark Johnson (who just broke 22 last week) a real battle...
...face it," says one broad-vowelled Ivy Leaguer, "the army gets the people who don't have the where--withall--in brains or money--to stay out. The real leadership is avoiding it--no one with any sense would fight of his own free will...
...national security law which would be one of the most strict and dictatorial trends that Castelo Branco could make. It would put practically the whole country under that tutorship of a Council of National Security Everything the government dislikes will involve a problem of national security. This is so broad and so vague a term the every move, every action, every preaching, every expose, every statement that is distasteful to the government eye will be considered a breach of national security. So it is a very dangerous thing. The press is reacting strongly against it while...
...where he is living, and I shook his hand. We printed a manifesto saying that it was about time we forgot all the troubles and the quarrels of the past and faced the future in order to get some reforms made and a new political democratic force in a broad sense. Not a united front in the sense of an opportunistic and temporary thing, but a deep-rooted movement that can become in the near future a strong popular party--progressive--let's say center minded and with a few leftist actions in the sense of an opening towards progressivism...