Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House. The caisson and its bright-colored burden rolled slowly along, small in the broad street from which Franklin Roosevelt had so often waved to cheering thousands. The sun seemed to grow hotter, the drums throbbed and muttered on & on. At last, the caisson ground up the graveled White House drive. The coffin was carried out of sight into the executive mansion...
...career was shaped by: 1) two wars; 2) life inside the narrow horizons of a small farm; and 3) an early political career in a machine that knew little and cared less for broad-scale statesmanship. Son of a Missouri farmer, he went no farther than high school before setting to work. He was a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank. Then he went back to the farm until World War I swept him in. A longtime National Guardsman, he went to France a captain, won commendation...
...Katzenjammer twins, Fauria and Dranetz, have looked especially broad from the rear during this week, it is not due to too much calisthenics, but to a set of pillows which the boys found necessary after last Sunday's riding experience. Having seen how these two Mighty Mites have suffered how could anyone think of trying such sport again...
...atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what has happened to liberated Italy's historic architecture. Highlights...
...thorough DDT spraying by autogiro, then counted the survivors. Results: the deadly chemical killed not only the moths and other insects, but practically all invertebrates, especially crayfish; many minnows; some trout (those that ate poisoned insects); more than half of the snakes and frogs. It also damaged a few broad-leaved trees. But the census takers noted, with pleased surprise, that birds, chipmunks, mice, beaver and deer in the park were apparently unharmed...