Word: far-flung
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...work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring off the distances with pieces of string, has been placed in the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences...
Addressing himself to the "colonial rabble before me in this far-flung corner of the earth," be-whiskered George William Pattison, a veteran of the British Royal Dragoons, said that sticking with Great Britain would have given Louisiana to the U.S. for nothing, averted the Civil War, the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and remarked that if there had been no revolution "you would be able to make a decent...
...were printing various editions of TIME for our own forces overseas in Teheran, Cairo and, eventually, Rome and Paris. After V-J day, when TIME Inc. decided to continue its world-wide publishing operation that had been built up from wartime necessity, we consolidated all of these far-flung printing operations in Paris in the Atlantic edition, so that Europeans could read their copies of TIME while U.S. citizens were reading the same issue. The film developed during the war, now flown from the U.S. to Paris, makes this fast printing schedule possible...
Hollywood, which had neurotically exaggerated its economic doldrums (TIME, Dec. 27), was startled last week to find its new-found optimism dramatized at last. For the first time in eleven years, M-G-M summoned 81 of its far-flung sales executives to hear the good news straight from the front office: the company, which released 24 pictures last year, was going to turn out an imposing total of 67 in the next 12 to 15 months...
...antagonist was thin, sandy-haired Leonard Lord, who had gone to work for Nuffield back in 1932. He became Nuffield's chief assistant, was in charge of the far-flung Nuffield organization (Morris, M. G. and Wolseley cars, trucks, etc.). But when Leonard Lord showed that he had a mind of his own, Nuffield quickly kicked him upstairs to run one of his many charities...