Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four returns are wrong by at least $2, and almost always in the taxpayer's favor. Worst offenders are farmers, professional men and owners of small businesses. The trouble lies not in innocent mistakes of addition, the bureau found, but in incorrect statements of income, too generous personal deductions, bogus exemptions for dependents. Altogether such "errors," as the bureau politely calls them, probably cheated the Government out of $1 billion...
...Algonquin Hotel and thoughtfully announced, "Thurber is the greatest guy in the world up to 5 p.m." Those who love Thurber ascribe such outbursts to old-fashioned artistic temperament and simply shrug them off. They know that when real troubles arise, there is nobody more steadfast and generous. The jams he has helped and comforted friends through are without number...
...drafted peace treaty for Japan, one of the most generous and sensible in history, seemed to have cleared the last big hurdle. The British had opposed it chiefly because the U.S. wanted the Nationalist government to sign the treaty on behalf of China, while London thought the Communist Chinese government should. The U.S.'s John Foster Dulles, who drafted the treaty and went to bat for it in London, proposed a compromise: let Japan herself decide which Chinese government would sign...
Much of Toulouse-Lautrec's popularity stems from his frothy subject matter. He pictured a devil-may-care world of generous bosoms and high kicks, a world that is gone but kindly remembered. The man was a genius besides. His line had all the energy of a high kick, his wit surpassed his exuberance, his knowledge of the human figure equaled his delight in it, and his touch was light as lace. He designed as well as the Japanese woodcut artists whom he most admired, and for their warm-milk sentimentality he substituted an absinthe bite...
...story's hero is the impulsively generous American (Ralph Meeker), who enlists the more cautious Frenchman (Dinan) and Englishman (Michael Medwin) in his efforts to keep troubled Heroine Lindfors and her husband out of the toils of the Soviet authorities. Their unofficial campaign puts the Russian in a tight spot, threatens to upset the precarious working harmony of the four-power command. The story ends with an inconclusiveness more true to life than suitable to drama: the Viennese couple finds sanctuary that seems only temporary; the American reaches a kind of understanding with the Russian that promises to last...