Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told her of our education program and pointed out North Carolina made very generous provision for the education of all races. . . . She was interested. I gave tier a resume...
According to the New York Evening Post of the following day, "a large and generous spirit prevailed. The Harvard spirit did not degenerate into exclusive pride of self-admiration . . . The general spirit was that this must not be the last social meeting of sons of Harvard in New York City...
This was contrary to the vague, easygoing war aims sponsored for the past eight months by the Allies. According to these the German people are being misled by a fanatic (as Woodrow Wilson said the Kaiser misled them). Let them turn Hitler out and a generous peace along the lines of European economic federation could be made. Duff Cooper's one concession to this attitude: the pint-sized German States should be "impotent but prosperous...
Sportswriters liked little Joe Jacobs. He was generous, gregarious, made good copy. They liked the taunts he put into beer-bibbing Tony Galento's mouth: "I'll murder dat bum" (Joe Louis). They echoed his casual remarks until they became part of Broadway's vernacular: "We wuz robbed" (when Schmeling lost to Sharkey in their second fight for the heavyweight title); "I shoulda stood in bed" (when he found himself among the shivering spectators at a World Series game one frosty day in Detroit...
...with a clearer vision, and know that the forebodings of those who have declared that war is ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly bcome magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...