Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory, however, that the Crimson showed its best side, especially in its amazing ablity to play as a team--a rare virtue in such a basically individualistic sport. The credit for this goes to coach Jack Barnaby, to Junta, and most deservedly to the members of the team themselves...
...Moscow, in its newly toughened attitude towards ideological dissension in the satellites, was dropping hints with the subtlety of a trip hammer that it might cancel a promised $175 million Soviet credit for construction of an aluminum plant in Tito's Montenegro on the ground that Tito was also taking money from the U.S. This led Belgrade's party newspaper Borba to suggest that the Soviet Union "believes that it alone has the right to do business with the U.S.," and that it is now Moscow, not Washington, that puts strings on economic...
...system appears designed primarily to maintain the status quo and protect the wealth and good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit the U.S. with favoring hated strongmen; Venezuela is currently irked because Washington gave a U.S. visa to ex-Dictator Marcos Peérez Jime...
...school who has been squeezed of what he knows." Two months ago, a group of college prep students pestered Ergil to play lemon. Result: twice a week, after school hours, he conducts a seminar in philosophy. Ergil gets no added pay for the course, and students get no course credit, but attendance is large, even on afternoons when the baseball team plays at home. A Mexican farm laborer's son assessed the seminar: "Everywhere else people tell you what to think. In other classes, reasons are given out of a book. Here, I get them out of myself...
...waits, and when Schill worries, people tell him it comes from his own sense of guilt. But he sees the whole town buying wildly, on credit; and when he tries to run away, he finds an obstructive wall of townspeople at the railway station. In the clutch of material self-interest, the town goes in for moral self-deception, until at a public meeting Schill is condemned to death. With a billion-mark check for his killers, and with Schill's coffin borne before her, Claire goes away...