Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the hot southerly wind abated, the Germans struck. They struck not in a foolish, perilous, single column near the coast, as the Italians had struck last fall; the wiser Germans drove on a broad front, in first three, then five columns. The southernmost columns were deep in the desert, out of effective naval range. In a few hours the Germans pushed 40 miles, almost as far as Sidi Barrani...
...important facts of strategy. In their hasty withdrawal the British had shown the Germans exactly what the Germans wanted the raid to reveal: the British plan of leading the attacker on to Matrûh. On the other hand, the Germans had shown the British that the Nazi attack-broad-fronted, wary of bombardment from the sea, in fanned columns which could flow around hard cores of resistance-would be harder to stop when it came than the Italians' Indian-file dress parade had been...
...Senate approved and sent tot the White House a bill authorizing acquisition of 59 new Naval auxiliary ships, the House passed and sent tot he Senate a bill giving the Government broad powers to regulate the use of U. S. merchantmen in the current emergency, and Rep. Ed V. Izac, D., Calif., proposed that the U. S. Navy be used to patrol a new "shipping zone" between this country and Ireland...
...stick in one rut till you died in it? Could anyone live the full life today? Vag sported, then blew his nose. He turned back to a course reading list in sociology: Mumford: the "Culture of Cities"--something about urban see, and architecture--must cover a pretty broad field--heard of him somewhere else-wrote that American lit book--and how about that one on science, "Technics and Civilization." Vag sat up straight. Here was the man be said couldn't exist today. And he'd written another book, too, Vag remembered, one that people discussed noisily and excitedly, something...
Nashville last week made its comeback as a city of fleet horses. On the broad hillsides of Percy Warner Park, ten miles outside the city, 30,000 Tennesseans and their guests gathered to watch a steeplechase run over its brand-new course in the natural amphitheater below. Visitors said it was the most beautiful steeplechase course in the world. Natives were far more excited over the race itself: the inaugural of the Iroquois Memorial Steeplechase, with big-name jumpers competing on Tennessee's own blue grass to revive the Volunteer State's great racing tradition...