Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams wrote later of his part in the trial: "The Part I took in Defense of Captn. Preston and the Soldiers, procured me Anxiety and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most galant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I eyer rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the verdict of the Jury was exactly right...
...Instead of sending her guests by car or state coach, Juliana packed them into three buses, each specially equipped with a bar. and the riders looked for all the world like Greyhound passengers rattling through Kansas. The experience was so novel, and the Queen's liquor supply so generous, that the royals had a high old time. Reported one bus driver: "They were thrilled by the idea. They made jokes about themselves, changed seats a lot and visited around...
Truffaut employs a hundred subtle tricks of the editor's trade - rapid shifts of image, sudden changes in screen size - to surprise the eye. But in Truffaut's work technique matters less than feeling. His feeling is spontaneous, sincere, generous, naive, natural. It bubbles up like the spring of life itself. A spectator who sits down to this picture feeling old and dry will rise up feeling young and green...
...paring profits, the wage raises have reduced German industry's capital investment. German businessmen like to finance expansion out of profits because they get a generous tax break for doing so and also save on interest payments. Last year, with profit margins running from 15% to 25%. West Germany pumped more than one-quarter of its G.N.P. into gross private investment, i.e., capital equipment, construction and inventories. (The rate in the U.S. was only 14% of the G.N.P.) Now that their profits are narrowing. German businessmen claim that their only recourse is to raise prices. When Economics Minister Ludwig...
...explain. But it is all part of a pattern of dedicated practice that very clearly pays off. In Manhattan's Town Hall last week, upright, tuxedoed and wide awake, the Romeros demonstrated that they are indisputably one of the best guitar ensembles around. Celedonio, 45, opened with a generous sampling of the literature for the classical guitar-Galilei, Sanz, Bach, Sor, Albéniz. His sound was lushly colored, his touch always impeccable, his readings alive with an extraordinary range of nuance not often found in the guitar. Celin, 24, followed his father-again with classical selections...