Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University is still trying to buy the Cambridge MTA yards as the site for a badly needed Tenth House. But despite generous purchase prices and offers to use part of the land for taxable ventures, Massachusetts Hall has been unable to obtain State consent to buy the property...
Scholars are not a notably generous lot. When they review one another's work, the friction of dry skin is almost audible as they rub their hands over a colleague's failure to sustain a thesis, his reliance on a wrong date, a superseded document or, better still, a bogus one. An expert on the receiving end of this kind of abuse is famed Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. His massive, ten-volume Study of History (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954) left him vulnerable on at least two scores: 1) it became the most widely discussed history of modern times...
...governorship in 1958, Unruh was his effective campaign manager in Southern California; later, on the floor of the assembly, he was the man most responsible for the passage of Brown's first successful legislative program. His political manners are from a classic mold. He can be generous, even to Republicans. But when he is crossed, Unruh is merciless. As chairman of the assembly Ways & Means Committee, he once lectured the members: "This committee is run democratically and will continue to be-as long as the majority votes...
...films provided Morgan with a 16 millimeter camera and some lighting equipment; Mother Nature was somewhat less generous, raining out half of the scheduled shootings; and MDC police were sometimes hard to shake...
...operation to the Special Operations Executive, have recently pointed out some of the dangers in the American single-body approach. The CIA's system leads to inefficiency, they claim, because it does not permit the delay necessary for digestion and analysis of intelligence before action is taken. They are generous; the CIA is actually open to more severe assaults. It has taken advantage of a position of secrecy to violate an ancient rule of espionage: never take the word of an interested party. Its agents apparently picked their favorites in Laos, where they relied heavily on the advice...