Word: broads
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...judgments and we still do not claim objectivity, which from the start we considered impossible and undesirable. Instead we aim for fairness and balance. Since the introduction of bylines in 1970 (writers had labored anonymously before), many individual voices have been heard in TIME. Even so, we maintain a broad consistency of policy and beliefs. But we assert these beliefs with less evangelical fervor than was sometimes the case in the past. The change does not so much reflect an American crisis of faith?though that crisis is real?as indicate the world's growing diversity and complexity...
Celebrating TIME'S 60th anniversary, this special issue undertakes to recall the most amazing six decades in history in the words we used to report them. It is not, however, a chronological anthology. Instead we classified the news into six broad categories, including War, Economics, Culture and Science. We then picked five major events in each of these categories, so that this issue offers highlights from 30 of the past 60 years. For each of those 30 years, we condensed TIME'S original account of a single major event to one page and devoted the facing page...
...broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia. It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil, he determined on the complete subjugation of Poland...
...week of stunning, swift disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen cities...
...crimes are all confined to short periods of time, usually a couple of years. The point is not that an ex-convict getting work-release aid turns back to crime within a few months; the fact remains that upward mobility over a generation or longer enables individual families and broad demographic groups to distance themselves from the types of crime endemic to lower-class American life...