Word: generous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shertok's praise was explicable on two counts: i) Israel could afford to be generous with words, having got most of what it wanted; 2) Israel might, just possibly, want to make common cause with Egypt against a resurgence of British "imperialism" in the Middle East...
Hard times are an old story to the Gardens. The first World War took experienced help away and cut public support; deterioration reached such a point that the curator resigned in despair. Only revived interest and generous benefactors saved them--the thirties found the Gardens beautiful once more, and the visitors still came...
...years the diaries were kept, Kafka became engaged to a generous and efficient young businesswoman. For five years the affair dragged on, but Kafka finally broke off because the girl could never understand his way of living and because he feared that as a sick and. indigent writer he would be a burden to her. In his diary he yearns for marriage and normal happiness; the thought of children makes him ecstatic. Once an apartment was rented and furniture bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee...
...tung learned about tyranny. Old Mao was the Ruling Power in the family. Young Mao, his brother, mother and the hired hand were the masses. Says Mao: "My mother, a kind and generous woman, criticized my attempts at open rebellion against the Ruling Power. She said it was not the Chinese way." Mao soon discarded his mother's simple gradualism. When his father bawled him out, he quoted a passage from Confucius, to the effect that the old should be kind and affectionate. Says Mao with sly humor: "The dialectical struggle in our family was constantly developing...
...Committee on Admissions was extremely generous to hockey coach Stan Priddy this year. Among the 1,325 new students admitted this year, there were two excellent forward lines and some capable defense...