Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy-like and alone through the garden to the huge refreshment tent, sampling a brave but pallid collation of austerity sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. Through it all stood friendly, broad-shouldered Ambassador Averell Harriman, shaking hands with each of his 2,000 guests. Once in a while the Ambassador would collapse into a nearby chair...
...would take years to remove all) and building temporary camps of wood and rusty tin. In an effort to hide the naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima with parks, broad avenues and a memorial hall to world amity. Chief booster was the city's assistant mayor, who played third base on the newly formed baseball team. (Brightly colored posters tacked to dead trees last week announced a doubleheader with the Osaka-Kobe team...
...months both candidates had chugged up & down the broad boot of Mexico. From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...
Roman Catholicism, Morrison says, does not merely threaten Protestantism-it is a threat to America itself: [It] is a self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...
Sousa on the Stomach. Sacheverell looked, says his brother, much as Henry VIII must have looked as a child: "broad face, green eyes and tawny hair." Edith was already "gothic" in aspect, gawky, nervous, dressed in expensive but "disfiguring" garments. She was nagged eternally by her mother, who was "always cruelly finding fault with her in front of other people." At 14 Edith's sensibilities had become so acute that she vomited on hearing John Philip Sousa conduct his brass band in London's Albert Hall...