Word: giver
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People's Good. He is stern as well as loving. His face looks down from posters, exhorting the people to put a stop to bribery: "Cast aside these vile practices. The giver is just as guilty as the receiver." Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window. Next morning, after a sleepless night, Nehru contritely promised to explore their grievances. In 1947, after appealing to Delhi's citizens to open their doors to homeless Hindus from Pakistan, he put up more than...
...cadences were exaggerated, the orchestral part at the end of "Et Resurrexit" was omitted and so was the first Osanna. The soles were taken more slowly than regulation, particularly the bass aria, "Et in Spiritum Sanctum," for it is quite frankly a pastoral dance, inspired by the word "Vivificantem" (Giver of life...
...University of Rochester's Alan Valentine thinks that what the country needs is a few good multimillionaires. Rising income taxes and falling interest rates have just about wiped out the big giver. Last week most big universities were busy devising ways & means of hitting "a lot of little givers...
...Indian Giver. Northwest Airlines asked CAB for permission to rebate 5% of the fare on flights more than half an hour late in arriving. But the offer had an Indian-giving feature: the line also asked CAB for a fare boost of 8%, the third increase, if granted, within a year...
...found favor in 1946 was a sequence of fourteen sonnets lettered in Old English, and illuminated, on a sheet of parchment. What gave a fillip to the toil that went into the manufacture of the gift was the fact that each sonnet described an outing or incident the Middlebury giver had shared with the Harvard recipient...