Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith, first Negro cabinet member in Michigan's history. In the Williams era, there have been generous increases in aid for the aged, the blind, the crippled children. The average unemployment compensation check has gone up more than 60%. Michigan has built eight community colleges, 27 mental clinics and hospitals, the $100 million Mackinac Bridge, a latticework of fine highways. The bill for public improvements: close to $1 billion...
...Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that looks like nothing seen in Rome before the 19th century), slobbery sentiment ("Be gentle with me. I'm going to have a baby"), a generous helping of cheesecake (Actress Simmons takes a bath in which she womanfully breasts the waves), and barrels of bright red, fresh-from-the-paint-can blood...
...from the poor, even offered them handouts. Within a few months, Chippy's waiting room and the corridor outside it were jammed every weekday morning with as many as a hundred dips, degenerates, con men, pete busters, second-story types. check artists, swindlers, arsonists, rapists, murderers, and a generous assortment of poor but honest citizens in trouble...
...burnished tone invoked comparisons with Casals. As for the 106-member Leningrad orchestra, it was the hit of London, which has no first-rate symphony of its own. The oldest orchestra in Russia, it is also Russia's best. Under Conductor Eugene Mravinsky, 57, the orchestra plays a generous number of modern works by composers like Hindemith, Stravinsky, Britten, Copland. In London it played mostly Russian works-although it learned Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra in two rehearsals, as the inevitable Soviet good-will gesture...
...Export-Import Bank. Brazil's chief delegate to the Bogota meeting, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, author of Brazil's Operation Pan American, which asks $10 billion in 20 years of aid to the region's economy, says that the U.S. proposal is "very kind, very generous," but it is only "a short-term palliative, made on the spur of the moment under the pressure of the Cuban crisis...