Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana's broad Malecon, sweating drivers pushed automobiles toward service stations and into queues that were sometimes ten blocks long. Desperate motorists waited all night to get their ration of three gallons when gasoline pumps opened in the morning. More than half of Havana's automobiles were garaged for lack of gas. Milk deliveries were cut, taxis almost vanished, and black-market fuel sold as high as $1.20 a gallon...
...argument against this contention, Zimmerman singled out seven men, from Augustus to Milton, who he believes have been the most influential in setting up the family system. "Every one of these men was equipped with as broad experience in sex as almost any one today...
...signs remain of the old days of Castle Corners. The grandfather clock in the main hall still reminds one that the President's office next door was once a drawing room. The white-painted rooms are broad and still luxurious, and the landings of the stair case command a fine view of the Yard that used to be a henyard. But Fay House is a house with a present as well as a past. The sign on the third floor has a commanding message for today's Radcliffe girl. In soliciting funds for the College's 70th anniversary, it says...
Last summer Chiang said merely: "Never mind, we must be broad-minded." Said he last fall: "Let him talk. He always did like to talk." But last month the Chinese government ordered his return, informed Washington that Feng's "diplomatic mission" was over. Cried a Chinese editorialist: "Return to China at an early date and repent before Jesus Christ...
...national counterpart, the "State of the College" report that the President of Harvard University issues each January rarely divulges any startling new proposals. Throughout its century-old heritage, the Annual Report has, more often than not, been a summary of the past year's activity, and a rather broad outline of plans for the future. This year's report by President Conant is no exception...