Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Navy, the going was not as easy, but the Middies were equally generous. Five unearned runs scored before Navy allowed the Crimson to tally on its own merit...
...Rightist Politician Gil Robles had turned the trial into an oblique attack on the Franco regime, and the Caudillo was angry. Said he: "Because we are strong we can afford to be generous. This is why we pay no attention to the silly intrigues of a few dozen would-be politicians and their followers." Then Franco threatened: "If they should ever disturb the realization of our heroic destiny . . . we would open the flood of blue shirts and red berets that would throw them...
Although the Crimson Tide of Alabama has ebbed to its lowest point in history on the football field (10 games, 10 losses in 1955), the university is still generous enough with its "grants in aid" to athletes to earn 1) a frown from the Southeastern Conference and 2) the services of more than 100 young men of brawn and promise. In return for the free education it gives them, most of the Alabama football, basketball and baseball players live a life apart in their own dormitory. Friedman Hall, and are regulated stiffly as to bedtime and weekend privileges, allowed little...
...gone to him for advice. "A university," says he, "is not created by textbooks but by atmosphere-the consecrated service to students by teachers. I try to impress on the students that we are just trustees of knowledge for the benefit of others. That those with learning must be generous. Learning for the sake of learning may be the ideal of some, but not here. We want learning for the sake of diffusion...
...that the visitors hit as well as expected. They made only six safeties. But MacLeod was generous to a fault. Though he had good stuff, he walked nine, hit three, unleashed a wild pitch, and fumbled a bunt. His catcher, Bill Formosi, got into the spirit by committing three passed balls. The rest of the infield was poor, too, making five errors...