Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present one-never abandoned her warm regard for the failed politician and faithless husband. The depth of that regard is vividly apparent to Duggan as he watches his sturdy young son, born after the second round of marriages but, he realizes uncomfortably, well before Avery drowned. "He is generous with his toys, and waits his turn at the slides even when he is being cheated by his mates. He has a sunny, loving nature. He is," Duggan reflects, "in every respect a goodfellow...
Since 1934, Saroyan has turned out generous quantities of short stories, novels, and at least one distinguished play (The Time of Your Life). At his best, when dealing with small boys, Armenian Americans, and poets without portfolio, he has won himself a modest but lasting place in our literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless...
Pointing out that the drive nets less than $2,000 yearly, she said, "It's really shameful to gather chicken feed and give it in the name of the whole College. We're only pretending to be generous...
Mikhail Zaitsev made a beautiful corpse. Propped in the coffin he had carved and painted himself, he wore his Sunday suit and an expression of noble serenity. Then, when the village photographer had finished taking his picture, Zaitsev leaped out and helped his neighbors down the generous supplies of vodka and cold cuts he had laid in for the wake. Next day, the neighbors mailed the funeral picture to his estranged wife in another village, explaining that Comrade Zaitsev had been electrocuted by a high-tension wire...
Biggest of the .new dailies was founded in Portland, Ore., where striking newsmen from the city's two papers started the Reporter, enlisted relatives to sell subscriptions to sympathetic union families, now claim a circulation of 52,734. But the Reporter has been having its troubles, despite generous help from the International Typographical Union, which supplied cut-rate equipment, and now ladles out weekly "strike" payments of as much as $77.10 to editorial hands...