Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become plain as day, and it is common sense to recognize, that our British and Russian allies are not only dedicated to the broad purpose of crushing Naziism and Fascism, but that they have a number of very definite and very practical national aims which have been frankly revealed to the world. . . . One of them-Britain-frankly intends to maintain the Empire, and the other-Russia-has clear intentions regarding Eastern Europe...
...Giraud, General de Gaulle, Minister Murphy and his British colleague, canny Harold MacMillan, who commented: "Better to have an argument now than civil war in France later." Winston Churchill may also have had something to say. Clearly London and Washington were pleased over the agreement in Algiers. But to broad-shouldered, ingratiating Bob Murphy, whose inclinations - and those of many of his operatives - are toward the Best People and not the People, the victory of De Gaullism was a sharp defeat...
...country where few are well-educated, where the population is 95% Negro and mulatto, the new suffrage was a broad, democratic gesture by the Colonial Office in London; and the constitution itself was important as an expression of a new and more enlightened British colonial pol icy. Some English on the island thought last week that the constitution might eliminate "experienced legislators" and produce a "working-class landslide." But Governor Richards seemed unworried about the possibility. Norman Manley, who works as hard for unity as he works for freedom, hopefully declared his confidence "in the good sense of the public...
Sikaiana stories were not harmed in the least by the fact that relatively little is known of the Stewart group. In peacetime only schooners in the copra trade call there. Sikaiana, one and a quarter miles long, is the largest of the five islands sur rounding a broad lagoon. But even its exact geographical location is disputed: A 1933 report indicated that it lies some 13 miles east of where the charts show...
...appropriation of $60,000 has been made by the Corporation from University funds to finance a two-year study of future provisions for a broad, general liberal arts education in American high school and colleges. This fund, taken from the University's unrestricted income, will be placed at the disposal of Harvard's new Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society, headed by Dean Paul H. Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...