Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan, Governor Luis Munoz Marin expressed profuse Latin appreciation of the generous offer-but added that the Puerto Ricans do not want independence. Under the present arrangement, Puerto Rico sends its goods tariff-free to the U.S., and exports to the U.S. (without restriction since they are U.S. citizens) hundreds of thousands of its surplus people. Most Puerto Ricans do not want to give all that up for the cold rigors of nationhood...
...Jordan says, "The figures suggest that our scholarship resources, which until recently were regarded as reasonably generous, ought immediately to be very considerably increased. It is all too clear that a poor girl, if she lives at a distance, must be able to maintain a scholarship record if she is to come to Radcliffe...
...added, "The cordial welcome that President Pusey gave to John Mason Brown's generous project is bound to be the prologue to better things...
...about $14 million, as a gesture of friendship to a country which, he said, was "fighting our war against Communism as well as theirs." Said a prominent citizen of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya's capital: "A ray of sunshine out of an overcast sky." Unfortunately, Omar's generous loan will not come near covering Malaya's 1954 deficit, now estimated at more than $50 million...
...winner, Vassily Smyslov, made generous acknowledgment of Reshevsky's skill: "He is the greatest player of the West-a tough little man full of brilliant ideas." Then Smyslov went back to Moscow, back into training for Champion Botvinnik, who no longer has to worry about radio blare and cigar smoke. In Russia, during chess matches, smoke and talk are forbidden...