Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winchell acknowledged that in 1945-46 he had given a "super-plug" to Stalin, written about the "generous" Russian justice in the Moscow trials, and attacked former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow William C. Bullitt for saying that Russia was a menace to the U.S. Russia was an ally of the U.S. during World War II, Winchell observed, and while he had no love for Communists, he had also loathed many of the "Sovvy-baiters." "Do you think it would be fair to comment that you had been duped [by the Communists]?" asked Rifkind. "[I] might have been," answered Winchell...
...enjoyed your colorful version of my years in the Foreign Service (TIME, May 25), and particularly your generous description of my being one "who has proved himself one of the best ambassadors the U.S. has ever sent to Latin America." However, rather than "pleading to be kept on," I would prefer to be regarded as a friendly pleader for El Salvador's special role, not only as a nation sympathetic to our objectives, but as the showcase for a dynamic approach to the problems that are currently plaguing all Latin America...
Hoagland already owns a drug store and a restaurant, so he was able to turn full attention to the problem of afternoon seating for his wife, six children and--University Hall officials are really generous--his three grandchildren...
...time Joe Martin called his meeting, he knew that Dan Reed was weakening. Both Martin and G.O.P. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck poured a generous pitcher of political syrup. There had been a lot of talk about undercutting his old buddy, Dan Reed, said Joe, and everybody surely knew that was just talk. He respected Dan's position, and wanted to talk to all the committee's Republicans on the President's proposals. He made it clear that the Republican leadership was ready to go down the line for the President...
...Baron de Roquette-Buisson, like many of the provincial aristocrats of France, is not noted for generous living. Every year he kills three pigs and ten geese at his château at Saint-Félix. On this, along with whatever can be garnered from the château gardens, his family and retainers must suffice. And so the baron's astonishment rose as bills came rolling in for sardines, eau de cologne, biscuits, marmalade, bananas, oranges, soap and chocolate cake. He was still puzzling one day when the baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been...