Word: far-flung
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...Reuter was the symbol of his city's will to be free, and of his nation's will to unite. He stood where worlds collide, and was not dwarfed; he gazed down the cannon's throat and refused to be afraid. West Berlin is still a far-flung outpost, tempest-lashed in a Red sea. Cold war is its way of life and the Iron Curtain its backyard fence, yet in five years as mayor, Reuter refused to accept his city as an island. "Call it a spearhead," he said with a faint grin...
...Neither had anything to do with the bickerings; they were away studying at England's Harrow during most of it. In the hot sun at Baghdad airport, they kissed in the Arab fashion, rode off together in a scarlet coach drawn by six white horses. Iraqi chieftains from far-flung oases came to Baghdad to pump the hand of the handsome visitor from Jordan. Feisal ordered a five-hour military show for his pistol-toting cousin. At European-style banquets, while diplomats and ministers drank wine, the cousins solemnly sipped Coca-Cola, decorated each other with the highest orders...
...Sent Congress the third of his reorganization plans, a proposal to streamline the complex and far-flung mobilization agencies, bring them together in a central, permanent Office of Defense Mobilization, and nominated Arthur S. Hemming as director of the present ODM. Under the new plan, the Munitions Board and the National Security Resources Board would be abolished, and planning, production and stockpiling for defense would be left almost entirely in civilian hands...
...Postponed action on Hawaiian statehood after the Interior Committee decided that its members should go to Hawaii for hearings. Some committee members were troubled by the far-flung boundaries (from Palmyra to the Kure Islands) set in the House bill, others were enticed by thoughts of Hawaii in the spring...
...experiment to be a success, the council's members must be drawn from representative sectors of American life. Following the pattern of the new Administration, we suggest that half the council be made up of men from far-flung agencies of the General Motors Corporation. The remaining half could come from other cultural groups like Chrysler and Ford. It might also be a smart propaganda move to bring in a minority group spokesman, from Nash-Kelvinator. The important thing however is to make this change and set a new example. Time is of the essence...