Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Western Hemisphere become a "war-free zone." Meanwhile, Jackson's political associate, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black Nation of Islam organization, visited Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli. The trip reinforced the impression among American Jews, who are some of Mondale's keenest supporters and most generous contributors, that Jackson is radically pro-Arab. As a result, Mondale cannot be seen to be conceding too much to Jackson for fear of a backlash that could drive Jewish voters into the Reagan camp...
...nine months, the 100 Afghans underwent training at CIA schools around the U.S., where they learned about shipping, running travel agencies and sending large containers overseas. At last, in the spring of 1982, Casey sent his fresh graduates into the field, armed with code names, passports and generous subsidies...
...American political style savored of saloons and cigars, and took its vocabulary (front runner, dark horse) from the race track. It was Founding Fathers, not Founding Mothers, who drafted the Constitution. Abigail Adams once wrote to her husband John, "I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors." The Fathers were not. American women did not?could not?even vote for the first 133 years of the Republic...
...itself: brooding and flamboyant, raucous and urbane, devout and dissolute. The fair stirs together the razzmatazz of Mardi Gras, the harmony of New Orleans' elegant old buildings and the French-Spanish-African-Italian-Irish-German-Creole-Cajun gumbo gusto of its everyday, every-night street life. With a generous infusion of pavilions and exhibitions from the rest of the U.S. and 24 other nations, the Louisiana World Exposition-to give the $350 million extravaganza its formal name-is the worldliest of World's Fairs...
...extremely generous of her [Dwyer] to do it for us," Gleason said...