Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nash had never told them about his marriage to a lovely Greek girl; he had always described his mother and father to Passmore as "little less than monsters." Passmore soon finds they are a lot better than that. Mr. Nash is a gentleman, stiff but witty; Mrs. Nash is generous-hearted, and undeceived about human nature. They take so warmly to Passmore and their son's widow that Passmore begins to understand the barrier of misunderstanding that separated the parents from their spoiled son. Newby tells his decent, civilized story effortlessly and well; but at the end its pallor...
...winning the Korean war, in so far as he was permitted to win it, when he was fired; 2) his speech before Congress breathed a sense of high public duty long absent from U.S. affairs; 3) the Japanese Treaty was a monument to his bold and generous effort to find a new U.S. relationship with Asian peoples; 4) to millions of Americans, he remained the No. 1 U.S. hero, by no means faded away...
This letter is my method of calling upon you for a complete retraction in the same location and with a generous exercise of words that radiate enthusiasm. I expect you to exercise your originality in such a manner as to make the correction fully as readable as the libelous statement referred to above... Gerald L. K. Smith. December...
Theron Lamar Caudle knew the friendliest people. Recently fired as head of the Justice Department's tax division, Caudle last week told a House subcommittee about some of his generous acquaintances. Punctuating his testimony with such exclamations as "Oh, my soul... Lord have mercy . . . Lord God almighty," Caudle writhed on the witness stand, lifting his hands above his head, joining them as if in prayer and rolling his banjo eyes upward. In a cotton-thick North Carolina drawl, he denied that he had done any tax favors for the men who treated him so generously...
Last week Versailles' future looked parlous indeed. The French government, weighed down with a record budget, has taken no steps to appropriate funds. So far, no U.S. millionaire has volunteered to go to the rescue. The most generous contribution toward the palace's rehabilitation to date: $600,000 from the state-controlled gambling casino at nearby Enghien...