Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question was now before a three-man Senate subcommittee, aided by two of the smartest, fastest-stepping officers going: Major General Lauris Norstad and Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford. The first sessions were passionless, devoted to broad principles and academic details. Utah's professorial Elbert Thomas took a phrase from the preamble to the Constitution to name the unified war machine the "Department of Common Defense." The dogfighting would come when Airman Radford and Airman Norstad tangled over the disposition of the Navy's land-based air forces. Even so, the bill should be ready in six weeks...
Whether in London or at Chartwell, his country place in Kent, he stayed in bed until noon. From 11 o'clock on, wrapped in a Chinese dressing gown, he received callers at his bedside. Across his broad belly would be a bed table, on which he rested his rubber-padded elbows; next to his bed, the invariable telephones, cigars, watches, pens and pencils...
...both the Commission and its watchdog Council may be psychological. In that case they will serve as an extension of the same role U.S. criticism has already played: keeping MacArthur on his toes. The Commission will sit permanently in Washington, and its policy directives will presumably be as broad as those which MacArthur has hitherto received...
...trio in the dock saluted jauntily, broke into broad smiles as they marched out. Soon telephones were jangling joyously all over Delhi. Crowds gathered in the streets. In a friend's jampacked house the three patriots (not traitors now) were garlanded with flowers. Said they in a formal statement: "This has been a victory for India...
...plans to steer. She was full of what the WAVES had taught her. Said she: "I am more enthusiastic than ever about liberal education. I found that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that. But it was true of the people who were in dull, uninspiring work on unglamorous shore duty. A person who is liberally educated-one who has a good many resources...