Word: boons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place where great fortunes were piled up in the midst of misery. Moneylenders flourished, and when the long-suffering poor finally rose against their masters in 1437, they were brutally put down by execution and banishment. But the rich man's ways were in a sense a boon to posterity; there was no easier way for him to purge his sins or ease his conscience than by commissioning a rich altarpiece for some local chapel...
...true some services are gratis, but most aren't. And why should they be? The parsonage system, ministerial discounts, etc. are perhaps more bane than boon. Two laymen discussing their minister's salary illustrate my point. "Maybe we should give him a raise." "What! He gets $4,000 now and the parsonage. That's as good...
...include On the 18th Day of November, The Captains and the Kings, I Am a Happy English Lad, rendered in a wildly improbable parody of an Oxford accent. Some of Behan's barroom sweepings are fresh as newsprint:I cried to Mr. Khrushchev, Please grant me this great boon: Don't muck about, don't muck about, Don't muck about with the moon...
...only does the lie-detector test benefit the boss, but it is also a boon to the employee, says Devine. When a frozen-food distributor called in Devine to find out who was pilfering $1,000 worth of food each month, the losses stopped immediately. Result: management gave raises, boosted starting pay $10 a week. In another case when $42 in cash disappeared from a service station, the three attendants voluntarily asked Devine for a lie-detector test. Devine said they were honest, sent them back to the job. A few days later a customer returned the money, saying...
...letter said its six signers had written to Trujillo to suggest a plan to end "the excesses, dry the tears, heal the wounds." In return, "we have promised special pledges in order to obtain from God the boon that none of the members of the [Trujillo] family shall ever experience the sufferings that today afflict the hearts of so many." Thunderstruck by open Catholic opposition, churchgoers left early Masses, talked nervously in church courtyards, returned to hear the letter read again at the next Mass. Collection plates overflowed with cash and donations of jewelry...