Word: generous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asylum. "I have always fought Communists," he said, "and I had proof that there are Communists in the army's Cultural [indoctrination] Corps. There has been no treason, no desertion nor anything shameful in my conduct." Matos got 20 years in prison-a verdict that Castro called "most generous. I am happy because I feel that revolutionary tribunals should be generous whenever possible...
...Lewin opened a cabaret and became the city's leading sports promoter (including the world's bantamweight boxing championship match in 1947). But he hit the really big money with a gambling joint called the Key Club off Manila's Dewey Boulevard. He was also a generous spender who won friends by donating $15,000 to a polio clinic and giving freely to orphans, lepers, war refugees...
...Bhave, hunted rhino in Nepal, lunched with the Wali of Swat, prowled the lower depths of teeming Calcutta, saw Tibet's Dalai Lama soon after his flight to India. Above all, Connery had concentrated on the complex man who personifies India today. Beyond many interviews-"He is enormously generous with his time and has never refused to answer a question"-Connery time and again crossed footsteps with Nehru in unlikely places. In Afghanistan last September, when Nehru was touring a model village, he noticed a familiar figure inspecting the next hut, said in surprise: "I didn't expect...
Beer and Coca-Cola will flow in the usual generous quantities...
When the medical world was agog over the discovery that blood circulates through the body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep's blood into human patients weakened by too generous bloodletting. Since they had never heard of such things as protein compatibility, it is small wonder that most patients died. In 1678 the French Parliament banned transfusions. Nowadays, no doctor would dream of transfusing animal blood to man. But last week, the medical world was again agog over a report that Italian physicians had used a sheep's blood to help clear the system of a woman dying...