Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many. Its instincts have been, and are, magnificently right. We see the small debits from day to day. Let us look rather at the huge credit through the years. Amidst all the dangers that beset us, we can be thankful that it is to this dynamic, humorous, impatient, impulsive, generous people there has passed the leadership of the world...
Painter Corot did not have to sell his work. The bright, sunny sky he kept throughout his career was well justified by his easy life. Supported by an allowance from his parents (a successful Paris modiste and her bookkeeping husband), the simplehearted, cheerful and generous Corot never knew hardship, was free to travel to Rome, voyage about France, take in Switzerland and Holland. His prime subject was landscape, which he recorded in masses of clear-cut light and shadow just as he saw it. The result, well illustrated by his early study of the Norman port of Honfleur (opposite...
...bipartisan respect for his carefully thought out, independent views, e.g., foreign aid administered with a high degree of selectivity and a close eye on costs ("I do not agree with those who argue that U.S. leadership requires us to spend billions simply to prove that we are more generous than the Russians"). In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower named him a delegate to the Southeast Asia Conference that resulted in the SEATO pact...
...dedicated frankness, Bozzy deemed it "fine to be sensible of all one's various sentiments and to analyze them." This meant that, like many self-analysts? he shamelessly dredged up his vices but coyly concealed most of his virtues. And yet, in fact, he was a generous friend, a highly intelligent observer, and an independent thinker-not all his awe of Dr. Johnson, for example, could convince him that the great man was right in saying that swallows passed the winter buried in heaps at the bottom of river beds...
...Generous Juries. The industry loss stemmed from the gain in highway accidents, which so far in 1956 added up to 8% more fatalities, 5% to 10% more accidents. But the accident increase only started the process; it is what happens after the accident that has caused most of the skyrocketing costs. The price of repairing battered cars and compensating maimed humans has shot up; claims now cost an average 41% more to settle than they did five years ago. A smashed fender that once could be replaced by a simple, curved piece of metal now involves large molded panels with...