Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that at Yalta in 1945 President Roosevelt had in mind his favorite case of the Canton and Enderbury Islands which were placed under a U.S.British condominium for 50 years. History will not forgive the man [Stalin] who played such deliberate tricks on the generous idealism of a great humanitarian...
...Versailles, Smuts worked vigorously with Wilson on the League Covenant, with equal vigor opposed the harshness of the terms imposed on Germany, arguing that a generous peace was more likely to last. Between the wars, he was out of office for nine years. When war came again, the pro-Hitler Nationalist leader, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, moved in Parliament that South Africa stay neutral. Smuts defeated him at the polls, led South Africa into the war at Britain's side. Later, as a delegate at San Francisco, he helped write the preamble of the United Nations Charter...
...Louisville, Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul railroad terminals to win 17-month-old pay demands. Big mass-production unions, however, were now getting together charts and statistics to support their claims to lusty wage boosts. Phil Murray's 1,000,000 United Steelworkers were ready to demand a generous increase from the steel industry on Nov. 1; the rubber and textile unions had similar plans. The big (60,000 members) Local 600 of the United Automobile Workers was already talking about striking the Ford Motor Co. unless it comes through with more...
...such language the Lord Chief Justice of England's most renowned court of law, London's Old Bailey, ladled out a generous helping of what was known as British justice in the 1680s. It was shocking language from a judge, but few Britons were shocked. In the courts, as on the street, the times had a raw, cruel edge. Defendants stood trial in irons, professional witnesses under the court's protection glibly swore to false evidence, juries were bullied unmercifully...
...applause greeted the bishop. To show that there was no prejudice, tall, dark Monsignor Alibio Ruina announced that the Communist mayor of Bolsena, the little town nearby where the miracle had occurred, would be invited to the procession. The church, which had won the day, could afford to be generous...