Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fought hard but fairly. He shook off hecklers the way a plow horse, intent on his furrow, swishes off flies. Grimly, ponderously, doggedly he plowed on, anxious only that his furrow be broad and deep and exactly straight; refusing to compromise or deviate or even rest until he had plowed the whole U. S. with the blade of his campaign...
Through the squadron, like an exciting rumor through a bored crowd, ran the warning: enemy planes sighted. The carrier broke course and nosed into the breeze; the destroyers hung by her flanks watchfully. Three long-nosed fighters roared along the carrier's broad flight deck and up into the sky. For ten minutes hundreds of eyes strained...
...London Daily Sketch recently attributed the following to Mein Kampf: "The British nation will ... be considered as the most valuable ally in the world as long as it can be counted on to show that brutality and tenacity in its Government, as well as in the spirit of the broad masses, which enables it to carry through to victory any struggle that it once enters on, no matter how long such a struggle may last, or how great the sacrifice that may be necessary, or whatever the means that have to be employed; and all this even though the actual...
...they had sown in Indo-China. By exploiting 23,000,000 natives, 28,000 Frenchmen had arranged for themselves an attractive existence, including the extraction of a tidy income from 10,000 tons of opium sold annually to the population under Government license. They had built European towns with broad, immaculate avenues, spacious buildings, beautiful squares adorned with statues of the French great. Beyond the exclusive French quarter, in utmost squalor and poverty, lived the native population, including a great number of half-castes, products of frequent matings between French officials and Annamite girls...
...sure that this day [of invasion] will come. On this day the British will realize that the story of an overdue invasion was just as valueless as the story of the bus that Herr Hitler missed, and that their broad viewpoints were nothing but illusions that brought them oceans of blood and tears, just as Prime Minister Churchill predicted when he took over the Government...