Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image. He added 3 in. to his meager (5 ft. 3 in.) frame by stuffing rags and folded tin cans into his black leather boots. He dyed his hair raven black, wore pancake makeup, pale cream lipstick and mascara. As for the cash, which he got in a generous weekly dole from his mother, Schmid bragged to the boys that it came from smuggling cars into Mexico, to the girls that it came from women whom he had taught "100 ways to make love...
Candlepower. More than anything else, candlepower saved the day. On Wall Street, a man from Merrill Lynch dropped in at Our Lady of Victory Church, left a generous contribution, and made off with all the votive candles. At the U.N., Secretary-General U Thant worked for five hours with light from candles that, joked an aide, were "left over from the Pope's visit"?then led a procession of eight to the ground, 38 stories below, by candlelight. Housewife Harriette Browne hated to do it, but she had to use the 48 candles from her husband's birthday cake...
...first there were many short circuits. For one thing, people tended to lie about their looks, checked themselves off as attractive when "not exceptionally attractive" would have been a generous judgment. For another, the early computer program told a subscriber who his "ideal mate" was and whose "ideal mate" he was, but the names were seldom the same. One pioneer received a letter from a girl saying that as he was her dream come true on paper, she wanted to meet him in the flesh. When he finally stood face to face with her, he recalls: "I didn...
...churchgoers have a tradition of generous giving-more than $3 billion in 1964 alone. Normally, pledges are made with no strings attached and without regard to the minister's policies or convictions, but the churches' strong commitment to civil rights has been a divisive issue. In anger, some givers have withheld pledges; in respect for this kind of contemporary Christian witness, others have donated with even greater enthusiasm...
Baines Genes. The boy was naturally a mother's delight. "Always generous," Rebekah writes, "he showered his mother with gifts, pebbles and flowers." Like Gautama Buddha or the youthful George Washington, Lyndon Johnson "had a passion for truthfulness." When a relative insisted that "all children tell stories," Mrs. Johnson was "shocked and indignant." "My boy," she declared, "never tells...