Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canniness-a leisure-loving group of bums made a delightful discovery last year. They discovered that life and even love on the dole was not such a bad racket. A sharp operator could live in a good hotel room (even when travelers were being turned away) and get generous allowances for restaurant meals simply by talking fast and avoiding employment. And he could sometimes live the good, gay life for months without hindrance by welfare authorities...
...farm at the age of twelve, grew up to be a side show wrestler at country fairs. A straightforward ox of a man, Bombois still has all the complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent and gave him a drubbing. The villagers knocked out three of my teeth and ran me out of town...
...service with alarming frequency. This destruction of rare and out-of-print works seriously hampers the efficiency of the University library system. Coupled with increasing book thefts by a few slippery dips, the mutilation of library property becomes a problem that must be solved if students expect to retain generous reading privileges...
Clint Anderson had been guilty of bad team-play; he had also poured cold water on the generous impulse of many a U.S. citizen. Nevertheless, there was a solid nut of truth in what he had said. Trying to save grain by starting with the consumer was like trying to lower prices through such retail price-cutting schemes as the ill-fated Newburyport plan (TIME, May 5). The only sensible place to start saving grain was where it came from-on the nation's farms...
...Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...