Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage of the City Hall auditorium in Hawthorne (pop. 1,861), and threaded his way through the miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and housewives who were his faithful followers. As he stopped for a moment to listen to a constituent's problem, he was still a picture-book Senator: generous girth, flashing blue eyes, and silver hair curling down around his collar. Then his knees buckled, and as he fell to the floor, his heart stopped. Pat McCarran, one of the most powerful political figures in the U.S., was dead...
Then, feelingly, spoke Anthony Eden. "I fear that at times we too readily take for granted what this generous brother has done for us in Europe, when but for his help all must have collapsed into confusion and Communism." Eden said. "I would like to assure the U.S. that what it has done . . . will be remembered with thankfulness." . To prove worthy of U.S. confidence, as Eden put it, Great Britain had a "new proposal to put before the conference." It was a proposal to make history, shattering the proud policy of insularity that Englishmen have maintained against all comers since...
...bluntly: "Just what are you after- everything?" The ministers shooed all but one aide each out of the conference room and settled down to a tough brass-tacks bar gaining session. The result was a compromise plan proposed by Dulles and made acceptable to the French by a generous new pledge from Konrad Adenauer. West Germany, he promised, would "never have recourse to force to achieve reunification [of Germany]." The Dulles-Adenauer compromise provided that: 1 ) Germany would agree to make no ABC (atomic, bacteriological and chemical) weapons, build only enough conventional weapons to arm its twelve divisions; 2) NATO...
...East. Cassandra urged Bevan to make a trip to the U.S. Wrote Cassandra : "When you have made up your mind to dislike people, it is disturbing when you discover that they are very likable persons indeed. And by far the great majority of Americans are friendly and generous to a degree that you do not always find in these islands. Going around disapproving of Americans is very tiring work indeed. Their many and obvious virtues make it very uphill work." Cassandra now scorns Bevan's and Nehru's "neutralism" with the same scorn he once heaped...
...bill which the Senate finally passed in August was much more generous. But it was also more tactful and less blatantly exceptional...