Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois governor's mansion at Springfield. At 12:40 in the morning, when Democratic hopes were clearly dead, he drove over to his election-eve campaign headquarters in Springfield's Leland Hotel. Smiling as the Democratic crowd loyally chanted "We want Stevenson," the governor, in a generous and graceful speech, conceded the election to Dwight Eisenhower. Said he: "The people have rendered their verdict, and I gladly accept it. General Eisenhower has been a great leader in war. He has been a vigorous and valiant opponent in the campaign. These qualities will now be dedicated to leading...
...humble man who had no notion whatever that the world would want to remember him . . . He remained to the end a man, a passionate, obstinate man, capable at times of fierce resentments and highly autocratic actions, which, however, did not prevent him from being one of the most generous, large-hearted, lovable human beings this sad world has ever known...
...brick building of generous proportions, the station was designed to blend with the ivy covered Harvard buildings in the vicinity. The Cambridge Fire Department prides itself on having the most collegiate looking, fire station in the country. Certainly it is one of the largest in the country. Most fire houses are two story affairs, but the Central has three stories, equal actually to five ordinary stories since the ground floor, called the apparatus room, is three stories high...
...from the crowds. All of Eisenhower's education, military, diplomatic, political, came on top of the basic set of his character-the education of boyhood in a small Kansas town half a century ago. The lessons of a Kansas boyhood were about the land, wide enough for freedom, generous to those who worked (and defended) it; about the astounding program that grew out of individual initiative and unfenced teamwork. Do these lessons still have a meaning in an America that has grown complex and doubtful of itself? To Eisenhower, they do. In his informal homecoming talk at Abilene last...
...Vice-Presidential candidate quoted a magazine survey which had reported that the Socialist Workers Party is on the ballot in 20 states, but added that the figure was generous...