Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with foreign countries to provide background information for their export division, discovered that interest in the world abroad was not confined to this department, but that the films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary activities received more generous support when parishioners were brought, by the motion picture, directly to the countries to be served. Banks and trade associations began to use the films to widen the broad knowledge that their employees need in their jobs. Colleges and schools found that the films made academic subjects come alive...
...Search back as one may . . . there is no record of a comparable act of inspired and generous diplomacy. ... It will be difficult after this demonstration of international solidarity to go on repeating the old gibes about American isolationism, the old complacent references to American political immaturity. . ... In recent months the American public is rapidly qualifying for the title of the least isolationist and self-absorbed of peoples." The U.S. would have to go some to live up to that eulogy. But it was learning...
...which he bludgeoned his mistress' sleeping husband. "[He] has," notes Runyon, "a sash-weight stance much like the batting form of Waner, of the Pittsburgh Pirates. . . . He is a right-hand hitter." And for the thousands of women whose interest in the Pirates is small, Runyon has other generous helpings to spoon out. "Mrs. Snyder," he notes, "the woman who has been called a Jezebel [came] stepping along briskly in her patent-leather pumps. . . . She has a good figure. . . and I thought she carried her clothes off rather smartly. . . . Her eyes are blue-green, and as chilly looking...
...these blasts he made careful and professorial defenses of the position of the United States. In the address, he kept to a general support of the Truman Doctrine. Our "imperialism" always has been pretty shoddy, he said, meaning that it has been half-hearted, naive, and oven sort of generous. He then took the occasion to compare our expansion and that of the Soviets--the Truman and Stalin Doctrines--and concluded that the men who created what he termed "the Russian ice age" must be mystified at our decadent lack of ruthlessness...
...first," wrote one boy, "I was just waiting for the ten days to be up so I could knock the socks off my sister. But as the days went on, I started to think differently. My parents were amazed I could be so generous and thoughtful." In another school, a little girl who had been fiercely anti-Japanese wrote a theme on tolerance. "If a Japanese came to my school," she said, "and asked me for a pencil, I wouldn...