Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children with infantile paralysis are usually fine and big, but not so fully developed as healthy ones. The broad, flat nose bridge, which the doctors noticed as indicating a disposition toward the disease, is a carry-over from fetal life-a mature nose has a high bridge. Another feature frequently found in paralysis cases: long eyelashes...
...newsmen, long annoyed and alarmed by brass-buttoned minds, both amateur and professional, the statement was a shocker. Under the broad coverall of "security," the Army has become progressively stricter in defining what newsmen can print. Its new doctrine means, if its words mean anything, that the Army may now (by its "vested interest") definitively prescribe what news may be printed in wartime and what not. Seldom in democratic countries had a servant of the people gone so far before...
...Traces of war are noticeable everywhere." Japanese women, including geisha girls, have discarded their traditional wide-sleeved, broad-belted kimonos, now wear mompeis (long trousers bound tightly at the ankles). They are more practical for running, jumping, climbing and fire fighting "in the event of air raids." Many Japanese women are "compelled to work ten or more hours in a factory; even those who are not directly drafted for war work have their specific duties...
...loaded into an already jampacked Army truck. "Hey, sergeant," she protested, "have a heart, this bus is full." Said the tough male sergeant: "Lady, I been getting 18 men into these trucks and I sure as hell can get 18 WACs in." Wailed the squeezed WAC: "But men are broad in the shoulders...
...informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft, his arms spread like a diver's, his eyes and teeth pure white and savage in his face." His heel snapped de Vaudois's wrist with a crack, his hand snatched a pistol, pumped bullets through the Nazi's heart. "So-vengeance," he snarled...