Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first alternative is acceptable only if the U.S. puts up the money, and indications are that the U.S. may not. The second alternative, favored by Chief of State Bao Dai, now in Paris, will require time and a generous assignment of French officers to train the Vietnamese soldiers-something the French, whose officer cadres are already much depleted, are reluctant to do. The third alternative is vigorously opposed by non-Communist Indo-Chinese, who fear that Red flags will be flying in Hanoi and Saigon within hours of a political armistice. The non-Communist Indo-Chinese have their own plan...
...issue of July 13, you accorded my book [The Minister's Personal Guide) and myself very generous space and a racy write-up. I appreciate both very highly, and thank you sincerely...
Then Agustin, a cousin of the Bringases, came back from America, and Amparo's situation began to look up. Agustin was a jewel of a man, kind, modest, a bit awkward socially, but enormously rich, and generous to a fault. Pushing 45, he was by all odds the finest catch in Madrid, but once he laid eyes on lovely, humble Amparo, the other senoritas had no chance. He proposed and Amparo accepted. There was just one problem: Amparo had once been seduced by a sinful priest, who kept popping up and asking for further favors. She was too weak...
...generous in little things...
...moonstruck sophomore toasting epistolary marshmallows for his sweetie, but one of the finer minds of the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle, addressing his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. During some 40 years of turbulent married life, Carlyle gradually diluted these honeyed words with wormwood. As Editor Trudy Bliss's generous sampling of Carlyle's domestic correspondence makes plain, he used confectionery phrases to sugarcoat endless pills packed with personal neuroses...