Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forced to kill only about 20 men in ten years in & around the docks. Now & then one of the hoodlums went to the chair for it, but business was fine otherwise. According to the best estimates, they stole and still steal $50 million a year in cargoes, mostly in broad daylight (shipping men politely called it pilferage). They pad stevedoring payrolls. They shake down truckers and they turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have...
...week's end, when San Antonio concertgoers got to hear Joseph, most agreed. First they heard broad phrases in full orchestra, then passages, with the simple serenity of Mozart, depicting the character of Joseph. Later, in the temptation by Potiphar's wife, the music became sensuously dissonant, almost Oriental, reminding some listeners of Salome...
Ever since 1928, when his America won a Musical America, magazine contest (with Koussevitzky and Stokowski among the judges), Bloch had had a notion that its broad, sweeping main theme was the best U.S. national-anthem music around -and specifically a lot better than The Star-Spangled Banner. But in 22 years, The Star-Spangled Banner had held its own and Bloch's America had been heard only a handful of times...
...John Phillips Marquand has been burrowing at the roots of Charley Gray's discontent. Next week, in his latest and best novel, Point of No Return, he gives his readers no pat answer. But, as a good novelist should, he gives them a shrewd, revealing picture of a broad segment of U.S. society...
...pound weight throw, 1:30 p.m. Broad jump, 4:30 p.m. 16-pound shot...