Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ports, sudden as buckshot, burst cluster after cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...
Reform advanced again last week. In Chungking the dominant Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) held an important Sixth National Congress. It re-elected the Generalissimo as its Tsung-Tsai-Director General. It passed resolutions calling for broad social reforms. It approved the Tsung-Tsai's proposal for a constitutional convention next November and for a limited withdrawal of Kuomintang influence from the Government. It held out China's hand to Russia and urged a continuation of "the policy of seeking a political solution of the Chinese Communist problem...
...Broad jump-Won by Crowell (B); second, Bates (B); third, Goodwin (T); fourth, Council (T). Distance-21 ft. Pole vault-Won by Harwood (H); second, Bailey (T); third, Sleicher (B); fourth, tie between Franke (T) and Soukup (T). Height...
...Royal Scandal" succeeds in poking fun at the welter of intrigues for which the court of the czarina was justly notorious, but it does not measure up to "Forgotten Paradise," the silent film to which Ernst Lubitsch now adds dialogue and Tallulah Bankhead. Wielding its satire with too broad a hand, "A Royal Scandal" has lost the flavor of the original, and director Otto Preminger finds himself left with something too slapstick to be convincing...
More important, Washington also started the ball rolling toward partial reconversion. From grey, owlish Fred Moore Vinson, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, came a broad plan for easing back to civilian-goods production-without interfering with supplies for the war against Japan. But the "partial" in the reconversion plan told its own story: the U.S. still had a war to win, the U.S. economy would still be largely controlled, U.S. citizens would still feel many a wartime shortage...