Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene which had the galleries popeyed with amazement. The Prime Minister, red-faced and angry, stood beside his desk, shook an angry finger at Opposition Leader Gordon Graydon, and shouted: "My honorable friend cannot tell me to sit down. . . ." As Mr. King took a firm step towards the broad, green-carpeted aisle which separates the Government from Opposition, Graydon repeated his demand: "I ask you to sit down." Members pounded their desks, shouted in excitement until the calm voice of Mr. Speaker restored order...
...east coast. . . . That is how, one fine day, a Norwegian Storm Trooper came to be on the steps of the White House at the head of his patrol. He entered between mighty pillars into a large half-lit vestibule. A portrait of George Washington hung on the wall. A broad marble staircase led to the upper floors. On each landing hung a gigantic star-spangled banner. Then suddenly he stood in front of a glass door. The President's study! But . . . chairs were flung about . . . papers were strewn across the floor. . . . How quiet...
...greatest living war commentator was speaking to the House of Commons, but his audience was the world. In the broad view, Winston Churchill's report was pregnant with political implications. But in the area of combat (as in the field of specific inter-Allied power politics) Churchill's summary, his first in five months of intensified military operations and preparations, was also the clear and vivid report of a great commander...
...broad grounds of strategy Hitler's decision to send into the south of Italy as many as 18 divisions, involving with their maintenance troops probably something like a half-million Germans, and his decision there in Italy to make a large secondary front is not unwelcome to the Allies. We must fight the Germans somewhere in this war unless we are to stand still and watch the Russians. This wearing battle in Italy occupies troops which cannot be employed in other greater operations, and it is an effective prelude to them...
Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...