Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference in London last week, reporters shot straightforward questions at T. V. Soong, China's sturdy Foreign Minister. Cosmopolite Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek, answered in plain English. Result: a broad-scale, official blueprint of China's postwar policies...
Australian and American artillery set the broad-leafed jungles aquiver last week as they roared an unexpected challenge to the Japs in Salamaua. Somehow through the jungles Allied 105s and other artillery had miraculously been lugged into position. With the aid of the guns Allied troops began storming the gates of the Japanese stronghold. Having chopped and shot their way through jungle to within five miles of it, they now needed artillery to battle for high ground...
...went - casual, saucy, amateurish, wonderful. For U.S. listeners, there was sadness in almost every line of the broad cast. The doughboys and doughgirls wanted above all to get home, The home front has heard little of this sort of program because of stanch adherence by NBC and CBS to their long standing ban on recorded programs, and an apparent reluctance by the military to promote direct civilian radio contact with troops abroad. In England BBC has long run recordings from far fields, found they have a big and attentive audience...
...Navy "relaxees," also a new uniform. Bell bottomed, one-striped cuffs, and those inevitable 13 buttons. Plus this, a slight stay at Portsmouth or some other rest resort and then... a lovely 1943 model long handled mop, a bucket of water, a broad expanse of deck and thou beside if on the bounding main, resting between swabs. Of course, if you'd rather not relax, you can always...
Blood and Running Water. Compared with those dynamic days, the tent hospital on its broad hill with gravel driveways now has a settled look. Italian prisoners have installed running water and some of the other comforts of home. The pharmacy hands out prescriptions and runs a blood bank (plasma is not enough for some cases with great blood loss, and the Evac stores whole blood bled from its own personnel). The shock tents give transfusions, prepare men for operations; the operating tent can handle 16 cases an hour around the clock. The dentistry tent with three chairs...