Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edge of Berlin, a young girl in a bright print dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade their few belongings for food...
...investigating committees rush out to diverse points, hope must be suspended until next January. Perhaps then the legislators will form a consistent policy, a little more free from more sniping at the administration, as to what will eventually do the country most good. This will have to include a broad program of European relief and an understanding as to what part will necessarily be played by labor and by government regulations in the next few stormy years...
...Lion of the Lord. Then a new leader arose and led them west to a final "gathering place of the saved in the last days." The leader was Brigham Young, a broad-shouldered, big-handed Vermont-born carpenter whom the Mormons had called The Lion of the Lord...
Nevertheless the U.S. Congress and the U.S. people had nearly always come, however reluctantly, to the point where they backed broad, essential foreign policy when both the need and the workability of a given program was clear. The need for U.S. action to stop Russia was plain enough; this summer's work at Paris would give the Congress and the people an idea of whether it was workable. To whatever Paris produced, the U.S. would apply certain tests. Among them...
With his fierce handlebar mustache, his broad-brimmed hat and black cape, Alfredo Palacios, the "grand old man" of Argentina's Socialist Party, resembles a character out of an 1890 melodrama. Like those 1890 heroes, he emphasizes honor. And in a long political life filled with battles for university reform, rights for women, legalized divorce, many are the duels he has fought to defend...