Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These days it takes a generous supply of gumption and money to launch a daily in the face of established opposition. The last time anyone had the nerve to try was in Phoenix, Ariz., where after two years, the upstart competitors have yet to find their place. But Atlanta's new paper looked uncommonly hale for a journalistic juvenile. The Times's 128-page debut issue thumped on 175,000 doorsteps, a neatly balanced, eye-pleasing display of big pictures and ample white space to break up the body type. The paper's management claimed a solid...
...other was her older sister, who is married to the Rev. Robert L. Pierson, a dedicated civil-rights advocate who was arrested in 1961 for participating in a bus station pray-in in Jackson, Miss. Both are daughters of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and their generous and spontaneous gesture won't do Candidate Rockefeller any harm with the Negro vote...
...should be saddened to be deprived of it as a document" of the eighteenth century "battle between a restricted Puritan ethic and a freer, more generous attitude toward life," he said...
...detected, because, as he says, "impasto is visual indigestion." Usually they are ringed with inscriptions: phrases from Melville and Whitman, or commands in broken stencil type such as EAT, HUG, LOVE, DIE, or ERR. These curt verbs, he believes, represent the vocabulary of the American dream, the "optimistic, generous, and naive" philosophy of plenty that is often mistaken for all the philosophy that the U.S. lives...
...airport. He shouted: "I haven't got time to talk, but I've got the strength. I get my strength from your faces." Next morning at a hotel breakfast with state legislators and members of the Georgia congressional delegation, he put away a generous helping of grits and sausage, delivered a tough, plain-talking speech for civil rights: "Because the Constitution requires it, because justice demands it, we must protect the constitutional rights of all our citizens, regardless of race, religion or the color of their skin." Surprisingly, the audience applauded; some even cheered. Cried Lyndon: "I love...