Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because Harvard ha so significant a photography collection, Cuno said that "we are seeking a distinguished leader in the field who wishes to build a program here at Harvard to serve as a great catalyst in an emerging constellation of resources and activities throughout the university. The very generous gift requires nothing less of us," Curo said, according to the Gazette...
Silvera's research is funded by the Department of Energy, the United States Air Force and the National Science Foundation (NSF). But the government has lately become a less generous benefactor, Silvera says...
...mater how big it is. Phew! Boy, would it stink! You need to either give Rover away or get rid of the puppies as quickly as you can. I don't suggest a violent method. Sell them and pay off your Coop bill! Or, if you're feeling generous, you could give them to the three or four proctors that don't have dogs...
Almost always, male to female cross-dressers, those in it for the long term as well as collegiate dabblers, choose the mode of exaggerated femininity, with a focus on exaggerated female movements--the mincing walk, generous cleavage, the flaming lips (no subtle Prescriptives regimen here), the coquettish, come-hither glances (my God, do women still give come-hither glances?)--and a seemingly inescapable attraction to low-rent apparel from Victoria's Secret and Frederick's of Hollywood, clothing choices which reveal more than mere body parts...
...Lady in the Van," the centerpiece of Writing Home, is Bennett's memoir of a deranged woman who parked her car in his garden and stayed there for 15 years, until her death in 1989. If he did not always feel generous ("One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation"), he always acted generously. To allow this radical intrusion in a quiet life seems the emblem of English accommodation. But, Bennett insists, "allow isn't quite the word. I was just faced with her-it was like Eleanor Roosevelt moving in! I just...