Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point all Congressmen seemed agreed: they must provide generous benefits for returning and disabled servicemen. In this resolve they were strengthened by a vigorous new veterans' lobby...
...Lose. When Louella goes to the races, she makes sure of a happy afternoon by betting on every horse that starts. At her generous buffets she never bothers to fill her own plate, but wanders among her guests, helping herself from anybody's plate that comes handy. In gossip-gathering she uses the same techniques. The men who run the studios and hand out the jobs read her faithfully and as faithfully react. (One screen writer who managed to get mentioned three times in Louella's column found himself abruptly raised from $500 a week...
...unity was needed, and where was it to be found? The deep love for one's native country, to whose power in World War I all France gave eternal testimony, could not stand alone to justify the slaughter at Verdun. The old generous dream of a new world, where all would share alike in the abundance that all created-a dream born in the bloody gutters of Paris in the days of the guillotine-could not stand up against the ghastly reality of Bolshevism. The liberal hope of an intelligently adjusted international order of compromise and arbitration could...
...11th of December I felt so tired out that I had to ask General Eisenhower for a few days' rest before proceeding. This was accorded me in the most generous manner...
...year on the railroads, the highways, and in the air, the price of neglect may be higher. In a fact-packed report on transportation the Truman Committee last week bluntly warned WPB and the Services that no further miracles could be expected from the overworked, undersupplied carriers. Only a generous quantity of new equipment and replacement parts can prevent a critical transportation breakdown...