Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assigned to West Point as an English instructor, Scholar John housed his growing family in a tiny walk-up apartment, enrolled at Columbia University (where his father soon became President) to earn his M.A. in English literature. (Thesis: The Soldier as a Character in Elizabethan Drama.) In mid-1952, while his father campaigned for the presidency against Adlai Stevenson, John went off to his first combat in Korea, was assigned to one of Ike's old prewar outfits, the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment. As G-3 (Operations) and later as a 3rd Division Intelligence officer for 14 months...
...married, middle-aged and suffering from the "tempus fugit blues." He was depressed by all the "fresh, bright faces" around him, especially when one of them got a major promotion in the company. "It's a bitter day when some stripling outstrips you," he groaned. "You earn a place in the sun-no bigger than a dime-and it's contested every minute." Indeed, it seemed high time to trim the "Mason-Dixon line" with some low-calorie food, have his molars fixed and make a mild pass at a pretty young waitress. On such a scarred...
Britain's reduction in her military force will mean more than the loss of storied regiments and colorful uniforms and customs. Some 7,000 officers and 60,000 other ranks who had made the military their career must now earn their wages in "civvy street...
...Irish immigrants, Weir quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother, worked as a $3-a-week office boy for a Pittsburgh wire company, later said he did "not consider it a handicap for a boy in his teens to have to go to work. Being forced to earn one's living strengthens character, equips for bigger battles." By 1905 Weir was manager of a U.S. Steel Corp. plant; at 30 he bought a wheezing West Virginia tinplate mill...
...must be passed by the full board of trustees,* which meets four times a year in a conference room with one wall lined with photographs of their predecessors and themselves. Between meetings the trustees study reams of reports and documents sent them by the foundation, more than earn their $5,000 a year. "We've got a tremendous trust," says Trustee Donald K. David, former dean of the Harvard business school. "You really learn what being a trustee means...