Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many commuters placed bets, averaging about 50 cents each, under the generous odds. Few kept an accurate tally of the number of bets placed, but most reports indicate the total was somewhere between...
...Force saw the whole affair in a somewhat different light. The reluctant flyers all knew that they were subject to combat duty when they chose to retain their reserve commissions-and thus draw a monthly paycheck from the Air Force, plus earning a generous Government retirement pension. Some of them came back into service voluntarily. And most of the sit-downers seemed to get that way just as they were about to be sent to Korea...
...coldly through half-moon glasses, wore a smile that looked like the result of a bite from a persimmon, seemed always to be telling fuel-short Britons to take cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that had to be done. He checked inflation, cut back the dollar expenditures of Britain and her dominions, devalued the pound, launched an economic life-saving program which, though it has not yet succeeded, is still basically the one by which Britain...
...Progressive" and "practical" got the most foreign votes as the outstanding U.S. characteristics. But 52% of the English called Americans "conceited" and 46% of Frenchmen called them "domineering." Only 34% of Frenchmen (who have received $2.5 billion in U.S. postwar aid) called the U.S. "generous." The Russians got it all-round for being "cruel," "backward" and "domineering," and only a spot of praise as "hard-working...
...home, each nation thought well of itself. Americans saw themselves as "peace-loving" (82%), "generous" (76%), "intelligent" (72%). All the others also put peace-loving high on their lists, except the Germans and Italians, who listed these outstanding virtues: "hard-working," "intelligent" and "brave." The most self-satisfied people were the English. Though they rated the Americans as conceited, they led the list in the number of virtues (21) they claimed for themselves for each fault they conceded they had. For Americans and Australians, the ratio was 13 to 1. Most modest: the Italians...