Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reasons for the generous run-of-the-library is simple: Radcliffe's own library, where the women from across the Square usually study, is closed for the summer; leaving those few women going to summer term here with no alternative but the high-vaulted arches of Widener's main reading room...
...Soldiers swarmed out of the guardhouse. The comandante himself popped to his office window, screamed as though cut to the heart, bustled into the courtyard. "Swine, filth," he yelled at the P.W.s. "seducers, whoremongers, robbers! ... I who have been so noble,, so kind, so Christian, so hundred per cent generous with you filthy bastards. . . . And this is my reward. . . . How many got away...
Quick Shift. From Paris had flowed a generous measure of the ideas that nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this...
More depended on how loans were made than on how big they were. It was not a simple issue between a generous and a sharp loan policy. Three U.S. loans were in the news last week, and each of them showed the more or less painful growth of U.S. experience in using dollars to further U.S. political ends...
...average American in Europe was not a bad guy. ... He fought bravely. He died by the thousands. ... He was generous to both Allied and enemy people. . . . Yet he was a failure as a propaganda agent for democracy, for the American way of life and for himself as an individual...