Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its blast WPB had shot its wad. The companies at once denied the charges. Under its sky-broad Presidential decree WPB could take over the plants and put them under Government operation. This is unlikely: producing more than 30% of the entire U.S. steel supply, the two corporations are too vital to be monkeyed with by anyone but crackerjack steelmen. WPB therefore flipped the whole thing over to the Justice Department with a meek "for appropriate action." The action: suits to enjoin future violations...
...then in broad daylight, at 12:30 Saturday noon, it happened. In from the sea swept a fleet of U.S. bombers, and for the first time in 2,602 years the island cities of Japan were subjected to enemy assault. Smashed in an instant of terror was the myth of immunity the people of Japan had accepted for generations as gospel...
...perception and yet a vast universality of theme Gogol exposes the corruption and bribery that pervaded the local government of Russia in his time and does it so well that the comedy has stood ever since as the classic exposure of political chicanery. The characters are drawn with a broad stroke; the situations are none too subtle, but both combine in a supple, side-splitting farce...
Dave Ives, last year's soccer captain and broad jumper, Frank Swirles, who played football at the University of Southern California, and Mountain will be the starting backs. Others who will start are Bill Whiting, Dick Dowry, George Waters, Irv Gerson, Bill Nelson, Bill Pugh and Charlie Sharpe, forwards; Jim Warren, scrum half, and Barney Ferguson, stand...
...absence, however, will be partly compensated for by the return of Tom Holyoke, who will be broad-jumping for the first time since the Dartmouth meet last winter. He and the speedily-improving Ted Bauer, who is hurdling and high-jumping as well, should bolster this department, formerly the weakest spot in the field events roster...