Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less publicized . . . have been her countless generous gifts to people in all walks of life...
...greying temples of his distinguished-looking customer. When the talk inevitably got around to income taxes, the barber had a proud boast: "I don't report half of my tips. They can't check up on me." A few moments later he happily pocketed a generous tip, then stiffened when his customer said: "My name is Coleman Andrews. I'm the Tax Commissioner...
...England, the city fathers of Manchester fussed and fumed over whether to pay Sculptor Henry Moore a generous ?760 for a lumpy chunk of bronze called Draped Torso, which looked like a vandalized nightgown. Murmured one alderman: "I wish it were a statue of Marilyn Monroe." Sneered a Moore supporter: "This is a work of art." An anti-Moore man retorted: "Is the councilor insinuating that Marilyn Monroe is not a work of art?" Moore's Torso lost the vote...
...stiffen his countrymen's resolution to achieve prosperity and independence, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gathered together six Cabinet ministers and made a flying postconference trip to Berlin. To the 2,200,000 West German citizens of this beleaguered isle in the German Red sea, he promised generous help from Bonn to fight unemployment, expand West Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope for relief from Communist bondage...
...Prof. Holcombe. In stating the basis of freedom of speech at Harvard, both the Crimeds and Prof. Holcombe seem to have fallen into la trap laid by McCarthyite demagogery. This trap consists of the almost patronizing attitude taken towards such speakers as Lattimore; that Harvard is showing a really generous spirit in allowing him to speak...