Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Free French officer who was poring over a map of occupied Europe heard the general's high, familiar voice at his shoulder: "Wasting your time, mon vieux. You'd do better studying a map of the world." Another officer in London asked De Gaulle to be more generous in sharing intelligence reports of the enemy's plans. "See here!" barked the general. "To win, it is not enough to know what the enemy wants. Above all, you have to know what you yourself want...
...Beta Kappa address at Harvard last June, Gerard Piel said: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to a fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth. In the command of those same means, progress has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
Griswold quoted from the Phi Beta Kappa address given at Commencement by Gerard Piel, the publisher of Scientific American: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to the fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth, [and] has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
Claiming a vague kinship with Britain's Oxbridge Unions, and aided by generous Government loans, student unions have multiplied seven-fold since World War II to more than 600 now, with at least 200 more under...
...nonetheless complain that the brightest young scientists are flocking into Government-guided work instead of into what Zenith Radio President J. S. Wright calls "the mundane world of household goods." Not only are the glamorous frontier technologies more challenging to inventors, but they are also more rewarding because of generous Government cost-plus contracts...