Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earn a Reward. What the Government planned to do to keep him and his family in safety from now on, it was not saying. Presumably the Gouzenkos will be granted Canadian citizenship and then quietly settle down where no enemies will be likely to find them...
...Catastrophe. Further questions and objections pointed up risks which were moral as well as economic. Human nature being what it is, U.S. financial intervention might earn America the resentment, even the hate of beneficiaries. The program opened up a road with no visible end. Along that road were other nations in almost as desperate straits as Greece. Who would be next to need U.S. help...
...playmates called him "Shot," in honor of the time he had once misspelled the word in school. Later, he worked as a call-boy on the nearby Texas & Pacific Railway, and punched cows in the summer to earn his way through Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons University). He played basketball, and ran so many campus organizations that he picked up another nickname, "Ma." Prankish, he liked to set all the alarm clocks in the student dormitory in which he lived for 4 a.m., roll 16-lb. shots down the halls and stairs in the dead of night. The college yearbook...
...Niven Busch novel), spent an unprecedented amount of money on this picture (reported to be $6 million, plus $2 million for promotion). By giving moviegoers a sort of super-sumptuous scrapbook of all the titillating, sure-fire elements that experience has convinced him they want, he figured to earn his millions back-plus a sizable profit. Box-office returns in Los Angeles, where Duel has been showing simultaneously in two theaters for the last couple of months (and is reportedly outgrossing Gone With the Wind by some 34%) indicate that Mr. Selznick may well be Hollywood's smartest businessman...
...when the doctors were through with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little wooden platform to wheel himself around, bought a shoeshine box, and went to the patio of the National Palace to earn his living. He remained silent and bitter as he bent his head over the shoes of ministers, generals, Supreme Court justices. But one day President Alvaro Obregon slapped him on the back, called him Chaparro (Shorty) and invited him to his office to shine his shoes. Genaro came out with shining eyes...