Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad directives for Pacific campaigns come not only from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (U.S. Army & Navy), but from the Combined Chiefs of Staff (U.S. and Great Britain...
...Military police on duty at a Washington, D.C. jitterbug dance hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
...belief that it was a geranium. But when she reached England with the statesman she always calls "Mr. W," she was still in her prime and determined to miss nothing. England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes." Wrote Philosopher Carlyle to Emerson: "He is a magnificent specimen...
...face which looked down on those reports was itself like a battlefield. Everything about it was big, broad, strong. The weather had been on it, and personal suffering behind it. The huge mouth looked like command, and above it, the nose was pugnacious. The eyes were aggressive. They and their screen of brow above the weariness below were as impressive and busy-looking as a couple of task forces. The face, as it read the reports, was thoughtful...
When the Liberty ship James Otis made her trial run off San Francisco's Golden Gate last February, broad-shouldered, 6-ft.-5 Charles E. Moore was in her engine room. His newly acquired Joshua Hendy Iron Works had built the two-story-high, 271,000-lb. reciprocating engine, and Moore was aboard to see how it performed. At the end of the trip he beamed, said: "When it's neither too tight to smell nor too loose to hear, then you can bet a ball of wax it's a damn fine engine...