Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article "Pitting Brother Against Brother," about the strike at the Phelps Dodge copper mine in Morenci, Ariz. [Oct. 3], makes me sad. It is pathetic to think that someone earning $26,000 a year would go on strike against a company that has been generous but is now in financial difficulties...
...than as a right idea that may also be funny. One cannot know without inspecting the Interior Secretary's interior if he personally abhors minority representation in government, but the suspicion runs high because Watt derided not only his commissioners, but also those members of the public sufficiently generous to find both humor and value in a sensitive issue. The laughter he elicited-and there was laughter-was the hollow laugh, what Samuel Beckett called the "mirthless" laugh (in the novel Watt, coincidentally), the laugh that itself gives a slap in the face...
...undergraduates have been very, very generous in making our family feel at home," adds Leverett Senior Tutor Thomas A. Dingman '67, father of Kathryn and fifteen-month-old Alexandra. "It's like having a big, big family around." says Nancy Dingman...
...more important than the military. The War Production Board announced that the wonder drug penicillin, for three years practically a monopoly of the Army & Navy, was now being manufactured in such quantity that it can be issued to civilians. Some 1,000 hospitals will be allowed to buy generous monthly quotas for distribution to patients and other hospitals...
...particularly generous student offered his telephone "in the true spirit of sharing...