Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activity is the deluxe Shepheard's Hotel, where males in civvies look as out of place as nuns in a nudist colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst...
...thin line of tense, motionless Parisians with brimming eyes watched German tanks, guns and troops converge on the Place de l'Etoile. When Nazis clumped around the Arc de Triomphe and past the Eternal Flame sheltered above the Unknown Soldier's tomb, then swung haughtily down the broad Champs-Elysées, France's cup ran over...
...Caucasus, bounded by the Caspian and Black Seas, forms a rough umbilicus betweenAsia and Europe. Its broad steppes in the north and lush valleys in the south have offered a natural highway for migrating hordes. Its mountains, higher than any in Europe, run from northwest to southeast and form natural bastions for defenders. Successive waves of Persians, Khazars, Arabs, Huns, Turko-Mongols and Russians have died in defense of narrow Caucasian mountain passes, or in trying to storm them...
...purpose is to unite informed and convinced Christians all over the country in common action on broad lines of social and international policy. . . . The crisis of civilization . . . makes it essential that all this work of Christian cooperation should be greatly intensified and extended...
...undergraduate school is to give that sort of general training which is a pre-requisite to successful advanced work in any special field. This liberal arts training should help men to see where they are going before they start out, it should give them a grasp of broad principles which can keep them from bogging down in details, and it should prepare them for the tremendous work of reconstruction when the war is over...