Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...batteries flown in from Europe and passed out free to rural villages so that he could be sure farmers would receive his election harangues loud and clear on their battery-driven sets. Pointing to the new factories and dams on which he has expended every penny that Turkey could earn or borrow abroad, Premier Menderes cried: "We will be a small America before many more years...
Abilene's youngsters, like others all over Texas, are graduates of well-organized "Pee Wee" (fifth and sixth grade) football leagues. Having already learned to take their lumps, they get from Chuck a generous dollop of the kind of coaching they will get even more intensively after they earn college athletic scholarships. Moser's assistant coaches, managers and quarterbacks get a mimeographed sheet of instructions before each practice session. There are movies of every game to be studied. To soothe the pains of workouts there are whirlpool baths and other expensive paraphernalia in the Abilene field house...
...Find Teachers? Biggest headache is finding and paying the faculty to teach bedside medicine in the last two years. Salaries are low: for full professors rarely as much as $20,000, nearly always much less than a first-rate physician could earn in private practice. Some schools settle for second-rate teachers. Others compromise by taking on professors halftime, leaving them half a work week to make a living in private practice. Since this leaves no time for research, the best schools insist on a hard core of full-time faculty members. Even so, these are outnumbered by part-time...
...country and try their luck. A typical example is Jay T. Smith of Iota, Idaho, who won the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo. Smith, like most of the others, has paid out more in expenses than he has won. Only about fifty of the nation's 3,000 rodeo cowboys earn more than $10,000 annually of the $3,000,000 of- fered in prizes. No cowboy is paid; in fact each has to pay to compete for prize money. Four of the contestants are Massachusetts boys, but as Smith said, "They ain't done nothing hardly worth spittin' at." Another...
...Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft that the fight to maintain Britain's currency will not be won overnight. Said he: "We recognize that this is a long, stiff haul. Our policy is to halt the increase in the supply of money. In years ahead, it will be harder to earn profits under this policy. It will be harder to get wage increases-they will need to be earned. But the profits and wages will be paid in honest pounds...