Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rosy-jowled face of Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson bloomed suddenly over the rail. Stentoriously Pa whispered to White House Secretary Bill Hassett: press conference immediately. The wharf slip was cranked up to deck level; the horde of sweating, shoving newsmen belched through a bottleneck of broad-shouldered Secret Service men and Maine State troopers, poured through a hatch, clattered down the companionway's 20 steps, found themselves, a little embarrassed, suddenly before the President...
...Bluffer, however, was Hubertus J. van Mook. A big, burly, blond Dutchman, only 46 years of age, with big, strong hands and a sharp, broad mind and a sense of humor besides, he was everything the traditional negotiator is not. He opened every discussion with: "This is our last word," and every time he stuck...
...member of the Volksraad (People's Council), Hubertus van Mook advocated more influence for the Indies in Empire affairs. He even talked of the day when the natives must be given more power in the colonies. He studied economics, began thinking in broad terms of Pacific, not simply Indies, economics. He found his right niche in 1934 when he entered the Department of Economic Affairs. In 1936 he represented the Indies at the Pan-Pacific Conference in California, and there he met that veteran diplomat, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, who was to succeed Ichizo Kobayashi as negotiator for Japan with...
...bombs was the first warning the Germans had that there was something new over the western front. Thirty thousand feet above the battleship Gneisenau, lying camouflaged at Brest, flew U.S.-built Flying Fortresses manned by the R.A.F. They had arrived through the substratosphere, unheard and unseen in the broad daylight; they had done so because behind each of the Fortresses' four engines were turbo-superchargers, feeding them fat air to breathe in the thin heights. Though the coast below was warm and summery, the planes were frosted over with rime. They cruised serenely above the effective range of ground...
...Constitution Avenues, in the city's most congested quarter. Following many of the suggestions of the McMillan Commission, which revitalized neoclassic Washington in 1902 and revived the basic plan, Mellon proclaimed that he too built in the tradition of L'Enfant. But L'Enfant's broad, radial avenues were meant to siphon off horse-drawn traffic as handily as possible. MelIon's Triangle blocked off some streets, bunched the biggest buildings at points where few traffic-discharging arteries flowed...