Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew out of two much-abused FHA regulations. The first, known as Section 608, provided FHA insurance for as much as 90% of mortgages on rental housing projects. It was designed to break, and did break, the back of the postwar housing emergency by deliberately encouraging bankers to be generous in their loans to builders. Section 608 lapsed in 1950 - but not before many unscrupulous builders had taken advantage of its bountiful provisions...
...great religions, whatever their differences, acknowledge a belief in God as the father and creator of mankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command. Others may be moved to brotherhood only by sentiment. We acknowledge brotherhood as a religious duty...
...Could there be anything that would be more openly declared lunacy than [to recognize] a nation which at this very moment is a declared aggressor? . . . What a-pitiful hope . . . that if only we should be kind, generous and gentle to Mao Tse-tung, perhaps he will forget his association with Moscow and will embrace our free nations . . . What a mad dream! What a dangerous dream...
...courage. French-born Jacques Barzun, 46, professor of history at Columbia University, has some reservations about his adopted country. The subtitle of his book is "A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words." But even after his grudging left hand has taken away some of what his generous right has dished out. God's Country still comes as a welcome antidote to the headshaking, finger-shaking school of culture critics...
...first number was the opera's famed Casta Diva (Stainless Goddess), which, while not Norma's most difficult number, is hardly a piece to warm up on. She threaded her way carefully but spiritedly through the opera's complicated cadenzas with a generous use of her pearly pianissimo, came dramatically and vocally into her own in the second and third acts and at the end, despite signs of weariness (she began to sing sharp), won a personal ovation. Most thrilling moments: her soaring duets with Mezzo-Soprano Fedora Barbieri...