Word: generously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...money," he said plaintively. "I cannot even comprehend it." Then he recalled that he was supposed to be arguing for, not against, the amendment, and continued: "We are engaged in building a deterrent to war ... On that basis I appeal to the House to authorize a more generous amount...
...past the U.S. had been guarded in its trust of Tito, but generous with its money. Now that he was back in his old camp, with a certain stature of his own, he may not miss the dollars he will now lose. He knows that the U.S. will still find it necessary to talk to him and through him. But from now on, there will be an inevitable difference. Denying him dollars will itself solve little. A more fundamental response to Moscow's new calculated blurring of distinctions is to keep distinctions clear. Tito's return to Moscow...
...crop production this year. Benson's move was specifically authorized by the new bill, although Congress had refused to go along with the Administration's request for 1956 payments to farmers contracting to enter the soil-bank program in 1957. Benson's schedule of payments was generous: if based on the average yield over the last five years, it would offer $22 for each acre of wheat withheld from production (estimated per acre market value before costs: $36), $35 per acre for corn ($54), $49 per acre for cotton ($104) and $57 per acre for rice...
...marbles with factory workers, Lady Docker at a party given by one of London's most notorious criminals (Billy Hill), Lady Docker roguishly dancing the hornpipe for an audience of sheepish miners aboard the Dockers' 878-ton yacht Shemara. Although both are millionaires, the Dockers also made generous use of the expense account and position of Sir Bernard, chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., which produces everything from air rifles to $40,000 Daimler limousines. On the swindle sheet were at least two gold-plated Daimlers-one of them upholstered in six zebra skins and costing...
...diehard Tigers prepared to return to the U.S. by a globe-girdling route, Charlie Caldwell announced that he and his fellow travelers had anted up more than $8,000 to set up "the Yoshio Osawa, 1925, Scholarship Fund." It will be used to send Japanese boys through Princeton. To generous Osawa the fund was a wonderful surprise. Said he hoarsely: "I was merely trying to repay the kindness shown me in America. Now my American classmates are repaying me for my kindness...