Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, the pent-up British said what they had long been thinking. Americans have been generous with typical big brotherly advice on the Middle East. miserly when it comes to assuming responsibility there. Responsibility means U.S. soldiers, guns, planes and ships. Was the U.S. ready...
...This generous outburst, a credit to British decency, swept Bevin and others of like mind into one historical error. When Bevin said of the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs that they "had lived together in perfect harmony until Hitler's stooges and agents broke up their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...
...more parents were in the habit of taking their offspring over their knee and applying a generous dose of strap oil, we'd all be better," wrote Mrs. T. Scholz. "My three teen-age girls have felt the beneficial sting since way back...
Foreign Commissar Molotov was tougher than ever before, and more tightly bound by his instructions. U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes offered him a compromise (virtually excluding France from Balkan discussions) which was generous to the point of humiliation. Molotov cabled home for instructions, got an answer: "Stick to your brief...
...purely economic argument offered more room for hope. The British negotiators seemed unexpectedly willing to fore-sake Empire preference and other trade restrictions and chance a return to relatively free world markets-if they could get a loan on sufficiently generous terms...