Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upped genial, broad-shouldered, tall William Loren Batt, 57, from chairman of the requirements committee to be vice chairman of WPB. chief of staff to determine policies, direct operations. Batt rose from a Wabash farm and an Indiana roundhouse to head the big S.K.F. Industries (ball bearings), went into NDAC...
...years. Banker, insurance-company director, hotel owner, Treadway has been an able peacetime servant of his constituents, has well served the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers as an unofficial watchdog on tax legislation. His knowledge of tax matters is profound and broad...
...York the ticker tape rained down as they rode up the Broadway canyon. In Washington they shook hands with the President. Baltimore showed them a sham battle. In Detroit they visited bomber plants. Portland dropped rose petals on their broad shoulders. In Los Angeles they danced with movie stars...
...also a very simple man, a foxhunting Virginia plantation squire, "slow and awkward at introspection, which he regarded as something slightly sordid." He was a man of colossal dignity. He had thin red hair, outsize hands, feet, nose, jaw, and his outsize body was "skin wound on bones, with broad shoulders and broader hips." His face was deeply pockmarked. When he could not sleep, he used to reassure himself by stroking the scars. He was "a sickly man, and he had the sickly man's intimate knowledge of death." He had "a physical abhorrence of physical fear...
...achieve "many personal benefits and a broad cultural advance," Edwards also proposed "the further extension of birth control information, the improvement of the environment, and the accomplishment of distributional reforms in favor of families with children." In speaking of the necessity for creating a new environment, Edwards stated, "Those individuals who are the carriers of the most desirable hereditary qualities are little likely to have families larger than average under conditions of poverty, ignorance, ill health and insecurity...