Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Soviets have facility with these facts and these weapons which the West too often lacks. An outstanding example of their acumen is the Stockholm Peace Appeal; confirmed Communists and political innocents alike have signed this broad manifesto, aligning themselves with its eloquent plea for peace and the banning of the atom bomb. The Soviets not only collect credit for the Appeal but also claim, often very effectively, that all the signers are on their side...
...most respected: Franklin Roosevelt, "although I had to learn to like him as one learns to like olives." And "The fact remains that he laughed only perfunctorily at my jokes." Roosevelt, furthermore, made George the butt of F.D.R.'s own sometimes broad practical jokes, which George also never quite got over. Once in 1937, to a crowd of folks gathered around the Roosevelt train in Sparks, Nev., Roosevelt suddenly introduced George as a district judge. Before George knew it he was thrust out before 10,000 people to make a stammering speech. As the train pulled out of Sparks...
...proposed to turn the Yard into a pristine monument, with its broad blotches of green unmarred by any students or local citizens resting comfortably. And over it all will be heard the lament of petty police authority: "I don't make the rules; I just carry them...
...thick and yet seem pathetically thin. The spoofing is as primitive as the objects of it are genteel; the romance, though it would seem recklessly swift in real life, seems endless on the stage. But the root trouble with the play is its mediocre writing. Satire just as broad and boy-meets-girl stuff just as corny have clicked as popular entertainment by dint of bright and lively lines. Playwright Crump will have to get on with his dialogue if he hopes to make good as a hack...
...started out for the North Pole, a standard mission for Squadron 375, it had to take off during a particular 15-minute period in each 24 hours. If it flew at any other time, it could not get to the pole and back without having to pass through a broad belt of blinding twilight...