Word: generous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such generous junketing is inevitably expensive, but it would be both unfair and unwise to assess Saudi Arabia's new King merely in terms of conspicuous consumption. His father carved out the land and lived to be astonished by a flow of gold that nothing in his training could have anticipated or prepared him to spend wisely. He left the land to his sons to make or break. In Saudi Arabia there are signs-new hospitals, new roads, new schools (though not enough of them), a bustle on all sides-that Saud will make...
...seeking to hire a companion because she thinks it is time for her elderly son to stop following her around. But the Fates know that neither mother nor son has any intention of separating. For 20-odd years, for example, Rosebery has let his mother sweeten his tea with "generous lumps," simply because he knows it makes her happy and he has not had the heart to break it to her that he has lost his taste for sugar. The rest of the household lump it more grudgingly: they yearn to be released from the tyranny of Miranda, but they...
...Viking Paperbound Portables, offering generous and well-chosen selections from such writers as Mark Twain, Gibbon, Voltaire, D. H. Lawrence...
Both Maro, 30, and Anahid, 28, are traditionally trained musicians, graduates of the Juilliard School, and fully able to serve the U.S. concert circuit with the generous helpings of Brahms and Beethoven that keep audiences happy. But planning a program seems to them rather like planning a menu. If the artist does not include something from contemporary life, it is like leaving out the meat and potatoes. Their career in contemporary music got its impetus from the fact that they are of Armenian descent. While still a student at Juilliard, in 1942, Maro had to prepare a concerto and chose...
...Judge Arthur Vanderbilt deserves generous commendation for speaking out . . . We seem to be doing something about Communistic subversives, but in the legal field, where the menace to the country's welfare is far more serious, shamefully little is being done to remove dishonest or incompetent judges from office or to stop unethical and dishonest practices by many members of the legal profession. All of which adds up to the fact that litigants are fleeced with no assurance that justice will be dispensed...