Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Secretary of State, James Edwin Webb, at 42 is a swiftly rising star in the Administration. A broad-shouldered and affable North Carolinian, Webb is a lawyer and a former vice president of the Sperry Corp. A pilot, he was a wartime Stateside major in Marine aviation. A protégé of North Carolina's late O. Max Gardner, Webb became Truman's Director of the Budget in July 1946. There he made many friends, no enemies. When a reporter asked the President what Webb's qualifications were for Under Secretary of State, Harry Truman...
Polite Insubordination. One of the most powerful advocates of peace now with the Reds was broad-shouldered, bony-faced General Pai Chung-hsi, formerly China's Defense Minister and now Commander in Central China. He commands four Nationalist armies in the Hankow area, crucial for its position athwart the flow of food (from the Hunan rice bowl) and of munitions (from Szechwan arsenals...
...stopped outside the Colombian Embassy on Lima's wide, tree-lined Avenida Arequipa. A bulky, broad-shouldered figure hurried up to the embassy door. It was past midnight, but the big man shouted: "Go tell the ambassador that the chief of the People's Party wants to see him." The ambassador appeared and admitted Peru's most famous political refugee to the asylum of his embassy. After three months in hiding, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 53-year-old boss of the outlawed People's Party (APRA), wanted diplomatic protection and a chance to flee...
...come at night, to avoid the repetition of a memorable scene, just four years ago, when Mindszenty was being arrested by Hungarian fascists. At that time he refused to be driven off in a police car. He donned his robes, and, followed by 20 priests, walked to prison in broad daylight, blessing the people who lined the streets kneeling in prayer...
...there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop in the cost of living. By reasonableness on both sides, there was the prospect and the possibility that the great American boom could be leveled off on a high plateau, broad enough to bear the weight of the burdens that the U.S. had assumed during 1948. Ahead lay the new frontiers which the new technologies in 1948 had disclosed. Peering at them, Westihghouse Electric's Gwilym Price saw "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those...