Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt said he had not read the bill before it was submitted, thought its language too broad, indicated that he had primarily wanted a measure to deal with strike-bound plants. He talked long with leaders of Congress, and Administration spokesmen announced that the bill would be greatly modified. Excitement about it disappeared...
Opposite Commissioner Yoshizawa at the Batavia conference table has been The Netherlands East Indies' genial, broad-faced, bespectacled Economics Minister Hubertus J. van Mook. As the weeks went by Minister van Mook knew very well that Japan's Army and Navy were slipping down the Indo-China coast, ever nearer the riches of the Indies. But he also knew that the Indies were becoming a nest of gun emplacements, barbed wire, trenches, that scores of U.S.-made bombers were being unloaded and assembled. And he knew that he had a very favorably disposed, if distant, neighbor named Franklin...
Died. Sir Hugh Walpole, 57, indefatigable writer of British regional and family novels; of heart disease; at his home near Keswick, England, Heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic, he wrote heavy, broad-shouldered, energetic novels, in densely populated series (the Herries series, the cathedral town series), averaged more than a book a year from the appearance of his first novel in 1909 to the end of his life. "I write as I breathe," he remarked once...
...Arizona desert's edge, in a broad valley twelve miles northwest of Phoenix, there were high jinks one day last week. Sprung up from the cactus in less than five months under the watering of Hollywood money. Southwest Airways' new Thunderbird Field-acting as one of 48 kindergartens for Army Airmen-was graduating its first class. Hollywood starlets trailed inspecting officers down ranks of 102 grey-clad cadets, who had a hard time keeping eyes front...
Last fortnight the Radical Party held a convention in Santiago's Teatro Municipal. At stake was not only the fate of the six ousted members, but also the whole broad question of Party policy; whether the Party should swing left or right-appease the Communists in the Popular Front or cooperate with the Socialists and oust the Communists. As the 600 delegates strolled into the hall one evening there was a sound of swiftly running feet in the Calle Huérfanos. Somebody shouted "Los Nacis!" Shots rang out and three delegates fell...