Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder if I might add a minor footnote to TIME'S gracious and generous account of my corporate activities. All of the eight attempts at full faculty status in the University of Chicago were instituted not by me but by university chairmen and deans. In many of the instances there was a strong majority recommendation from the units in which I would have served. These recommendations were blocked by mysterious forces at higher levels. These forces are not only anticlerical but anti-Catholic. However, they are not typical of the university, and I do not charge the university with...
...diatribe against him, the official Soviet news agency Tass made no attempt to counter Solzhenitsyn's harrowing documentation. Instead, the agency wrongly quoted the author as writing that the Czarist regime was "liberal and loving," and Nazi rule "gracious and merciful," in contrast with the Soviet treatment of its people. Then, a nationwide TV program accused him of "malicious slander." The attacks seemed to presage yet another massive Soviet press campaign against the persecuted Nobel-prizewinning writer. Still, Tass did stop short of calling for Solzhenitsyn's arrest...
...Leaf. Part of Shevardnadze's campaign is to expose shocking examples of Georgian gracious living like the one recently revealed by the local party newspaper, Zarya Vostoka. It reported that 4,000 families, including those of many party officials, had simply dropped out of the Communist economic system and were living by private enterprise-on choice acreage along Georgia's Black Sea coast. The most lurid revelation was saved for the grave pages of Pravda itself. The party newspaper reported that with "party connivance" scores of "marble dachas" had sprouted "like mushrooms" all over Georgia, while shortages persisted...
...establishing some sort of first this time as the trip will be managed by Maria Kacandes," McCurdy said. "John Noble (the other manager) is folding in gracious fashion to female pressure groups, but you know what's going to be said about Woman's Lib if we lose. If we win, though, Noble is through...
...scarcely looks like a pillar of academe. Crammed into six dowdy buildings on a narrow lane hard by the Strand, it has no spacious lawns or gracious halls. But the intellectual life of the London School of Economics has never been cramped...