Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...dust-bowl region-spreading outward from the area where the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles hang together-hundreds of soil-conservation districts had been formed; farmers had "windstripped" their fields by alternating bands of cropland with long panels of soil-anchoring grassland. They had planted tree windbreaks, built broad terraces to catch snow and water, and planted crops on long-range rotation schedules...
...atmosphere acrid with controversy and resentment. He had brought to the nation's highest military council something that had been too much forgotten in the jealous and unseemly interservice fights over unification-a grasp of international strategy, military history and geopolitics. He had, in fact, some of the broad-gauge character of men like Clay, Eisenhower, MacArthur-a type of mind which, on the record, West Point seemed to produce more often than Annapolis. His grasp was sorely needed, at a time when there were some who blared that nothing had changed-though an explosion, deep in the dark...
Dean Rogers impressed upon his audience that graduate work is not narrow and specialized, as many believe, and pointed out that graduate study must have a broad foundation of general knowledge. He emphasized the importance of the "spirit of research" in graduate work...
Such a bold venture as setting the fleeting moment in its perspective is bound to run afoul of fast changing events on some points. But the broad analysis on which Professor Hughes bases his essay is both provocative and gives a long-range, sober base from which to view the headlines...
Well known for heavy dramatics (The Fugitive) and ambitious westerns (The Three Godfathers), Director Ford now shows a lively flair for broad strokes of comedy. Even when the movie gets close to his old home grounds, as in the cleanly staged scenes of overseas action, he tints it brightly with a sense of the ridiculous. In the French underground, bosomy Starlet Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies...