Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guns and build a ladder. The idea was to pin down the lone tower guard with gunfire and climb the ladder over the wall. Everything went as planned, except that at the key moment two of the cons jumped on the ladder and it came crashing down. "This was broad daylight," remembers Green, "and all 300 inmates were watching. It must have been the first break in history with a cheering section. They were hollering: 'Get that ladder up!' When it crashed, everybody yelled, 'Get it up again...
Soon the ladies move on to lunch and the inspection continues. It soon becomes apparent that no single characteristic sets the XR books apart from other books in the stacks. The XRs fall into six broad categories...
...Boston Globe the moderate students received the publicity they wanted. One of Johnson's aides summoned one of the students advisors, and questioned him about the students plans. The White House, according to official sources, was worried that the group might become the catalyst for a more broad-based opposition...
Whatever the degree of evil, Lyndon Johnson would unquestionably like to end it-if only to ease the enormous pressure on his Administration. Four broad routes are, and always have been, open...
...Durants are not original historians in the sense of having a particular slant on history, except for a broad humanistic sympathy. They do not view events through the prism of philosophy or economics or ideology. Their method is sometimes closer to journalism than to formal academic history. Yet in recent years the academic attacks on the Durants have diminished-perhaps partly because in the U.S. the writing of history in general has begun to free itself from the 19th century Germanic mold, in which color was suspect and wit was heresy...