Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folks," says Mr. Ray in a voice scraped raw with song, "are more generous to me than I deserve." The house shrieks indignantly, because this is practically abdication; but finding that its idol is only introducing his tribute to the band ("not only very wunnerful musicians but each one my very dear friend"), it roars obedient acclaim, and the band rise to their feet with the sulky air of men who know that they are only another man's gimmick. For Mr. Ray's gimmick is to affect a touching humility before the gifts divinely bestowed...
Then, to prove U.S. willingness to back up high ideals with hard cash, the Vice President promised his Latin-American neighbors: "Our Government will continue its policy of offering generous sources of official loans for every sound economic development project elsewhere in the hemisphere for which capital is not reasonably forthcoming from private sources or from other official lending agencies such as the International Bank. We know that what harms one member of the American family harms all, and what helps one helps...
...foreigner, led to believe that the Germans "live, eat and sleep reunification," is somewhat surprised to see that the average West German today is living a hyperactive life of his own, eating generous helpings of Wurst and Sauerkraut, and sleeping very well. The "German economic miracle" has been somewhat over-emphasized, but as one walks down Dusseldorf's Konigstrasse or Munich's Kaufingerstrasse it is obvious that the German is again living very well. And it is not difficult to understand that after five years of war and ten of rebuilding, he is very loath to give up his present...
...Generous or Lose. Faure had achieved a mighty step forward: he had won approval for a policy of reform in North Africa, and thereby saved a part of France's tattered international reputation. But he had not done it gracefully. He had blinked at insubordination by high military officers, tolerated defiance from his own ministers, allowed appointees to modify his orders and obstruct his express wishes. In so doing, he had jeopardized his own claim to leadership. Yet his very temporizing had forced Frenchmen to accept the difficult fact: France must be generous to North Africa or lose...
...pattern was being broken at Chicago's Presbyterian McCormick Theological Seminary-so named since 1886 because of the generous endowments of Farm Machinery Maker Cyrus H. McCormick. Last week a theology professor was showing a visitor around. "By the way," he remarked, "we never refer to death as the Grim Reaper around here. It's always the International Harvester...