Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-powered, bulletproof ZIS limousine sped along Belgrade's narrow streets and broad avenues, between lines of poplars and policemen, lined up in front of the Great Hall of Topchider Park. Out of the car stepped a husky man in a blue dress uniform. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Communist dictator of Yugoslavia and a gaudily tricked-out specter to the rest of the Communist world, was going to make a speech...
...Strauss waltzes, has been silent for weeks. The shouting, arm-waving throng of money changers has dwindled to a few clusters. Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li'l Abner. The price of their coins, like the price of everything else, has climbed dizzily...
...Department has made the changes to lighten course and laboratory loads because it believes that industry is putting more emphasis on a broad education and wants students to participate in extra-curricular activities and ethics. Lowering the amount of time concentrators must spend on Chemistry to the exclusion of other activities is also in line with the General Education program, the Department feels...
...piece itself would be difficult to spoil. Kaufman and Hart's lampooning of Alexander Woolcott and a few of his friends is full of full-step jokes, slapstick, and broad humor. The cast that Directors Miller and Seaver have put around Woolley is adequate in all parts, really capable in only a few; but it played last night to the best of its abilities, muffed no lines, and kept the play going when The Man was offstage...
Last week, as Parisians basked in spring's first sunny warmth, Bruce stood by his broad window in the U.S. Embassy Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...