Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competition between the Crimson and BU should be keen in almost all events and especially in the 600 yard run, the 1/4-mile run, the broad jump, and the 35 pound weight throw...
...newsman asked: "Do you consider that the American Government has lost face in China because of recent developments?" The question was broad enough to touch another sore point: U.S. helplessness over the shabby treatment of Consul General Angus Ward (TIME, Nov. 21 et seq.). Acheson flushed with anger. He replied, with heavy irony, that "face" was a particularly foolish Oriental conception which suddenly seems to have seized the American mind, that you can lose wars, you can lose honor and lose everything else, but to lose face seems to be terrible. It was a particular form of Orientalism of which...
...this point, Perón, who had entered the room wearing his usual broad smile, had tears streaming down his cheeks...
...first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World War II, broad, black-haired Isaiah Berlin developed two bad habits: he was always late to work (he likes to sleep until 10:30), and always the last to appear at a dinner party. No one minded. His flashing dinner talk never failed to charm Washington hostesses and capital pundits. And his brilliant reports on U.S. thinking and doing made him Winston Churchill's most penetrating official observer of wartime America...
...Town. Through this complex, wholly artificial beehive of modern living, Connie Hilton moves with the speed-and often the freshness-of a cowboy on the town. No "bellhop with a manicure" -as some hotelmen are scornfully labeled in the trade-Connie Hilton is a towering (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered, leatherfaced extravert who proudly wears a $100 Stetson and talks with astonishing frankness about his income (see box] and business affairs...