Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precisely at 4, the band in the Plaza Mexico broke into the traditional Andalusian Skies, and the winter bullfighting season was on. In his box halfway up the ring's shady side, an erect, piercing-eyed old man in a broad-brimmed black hat glared about him. The wind was too strong for good bullfighting, he groused; the sun too bright. In their brilliantly colored capotes de paseo (parade capes), the toreros marched into the ring. "No elegance!" the old man harrumphed...
Appreciated but less popular were John Cobb's* scrutiny of U.S.A.A.F. men & manners in wartime England, The Gesture (also a first novel), James Gould Cozzens' Guard of Honor, an admirable study of base life at a U.S. flying field, and Theodor Plievier's gruesome Stalingrad, a broad-scale battle picture whose forceful "documentary" slant made it more fact than fiction...
...experts predict that the Treasury will take in at least $43 billion in fiscal 1949. To finance its tentative program for 1950, therefore, the Administration can reasonably count upon just about enough revenue. But this program contains very few of the broad social welfare objectives advocated by Harry Truman in his campaign...
...broad highway from the Zuider Zee topped a beech-trimmed ridge, then dropped into the town. In the growing darkness, the steep-roofed houses spread themselves out in misty brick waves. At the hotel, a man took my suitcase and typewriter, then ushered us inside. A banquet table had been spread across the length of the dining room...
...Understand." For two days of suspense, the Suchow commanders did not budge. Then the evacuation began. Along both sides of Suchow's main street -a broad expanse of cobblestones bisected by a barren dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black...