Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great fear of other countries is that after World War II the U.S. may once again, as it did in 1919, turn a broad and naively self-sufficient back on the rest of the world. Yet there is no binding parallel between...
Observers, watching the Congress' mood and its first official actions, thought they could predict, in broad outline, some of its history-to-come...
...industrial stage last week pranced a brand-new performer-handsome, broad-shouldered, 26-year-old Stanley Arnold Odium, son of famed investment trust magnate Floyd B. Odium, and a young buck out to show the world and his father that he could do a job. His first act was a juggling number called Great American Industries Inc., which already makes industrial rubber products, fire engines and tank rescue trucks, is adding telephones and electrical equipment. However much of a hodgepodge, Stanley's venture is spreading like a grass fire and making big money in the process...
...basic instabilities in men's attempts to satisfy their wants, psychological as well as material. Merely setting up a new super-state, or putting sharp teeth in a thoroughly dead corpse, are hopeless. The "post-war world," if it is to get anywhere, must attack specific problems on a broad scale. Details of organization, beyond the initial agreement to attack the seats of infection, will take care of themselves...
...State of the Union message, he had abandoned his plans for a fighting speech full of urgent recommendations for expanded social security and other plans dear to his own heart but anathema to many a Congressman. Instead he spoke in broad outlines, with friendly, conciliatory gestures. Probably bitter fights were inevitable between this Congress and the Administration, but the President had at least postponed them. Not since the first "honeymoon days" of his Administration had Franklin Roosevelt received such an overwhelmingly favorable reaction to a speech. Not since the first days after Pearl Harbor had Washington seemed so united...