Word: giver
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...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
Wryly Nehru has admitted a basic factor in Indian life: the national symbol is the cow. To the Indians the cow is sacred because it stands for the giver of plenty, the tie of human nature to the animal and the soil, the quiet, contemplative qualities which the Eastern mind respects...
...second son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent was christened: Michael George Charles Franklin. Seventh in the line of succession to Britain's throne, he was the first royal Briton to bear a U.S. citizen's name-Franklin D. Roosevelt was his godfather and name giver. The Duke of Kent stood as President Roosevelt's proxy. After the ceremonies the King, Queen Mary and the Duke and Duchess all posed with the new Prince for a new page in the family album...
...north into Manchuria for his supplies against the great war, then crept down China's coast toward Hong Kong. The fearful Dutch did more than the rest of the world to get ready. Dutch diplomacy, dedicated to the proposition that oil to the enemy is poison to the giver, slapped down Japanese demands with no fear of offending Japanese sensibilities. No longer an active pilot, Hein ter Poorten bought airplanes, Martin bombers, Curtiss pursuits, Ryan trainers. The Netherlands East Indies worked to build up an air force...
...Here, even sadness must be sharpened and refined to understanding and acceptance; here, Earth was still the ancient life-giver, increasing joy. . . . Here . . . one could, if he would, catch something of that wisdom which life in most places and under most circumstances leaves unfinished, even undiscovered...