Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certainly, Japan cannot forever continue to buy from the U.S. unless barriers to trade permitting Japan to earn those dollars are opened...
...Corvette K69. Golly, thought Vag, and I've got tutorial tonight. He checked his watch and saw that he was already three minutes late. That would mean at least one demerit. Besides, he really should have gotten a haircut with an inspection slated for that day; long hair would earn another demerit. Of course he could pull his cap down to his cars, but that would be lacking in honor. No, the best thing would be a tactical retreat. So with shoulders braced, trying to look as much as possible like an officer on leave, Vag turned into the theatre...
George Meredith was hardly the man to translate his own exact misadventures into literal print, but he had enough of his own, at least, to stimulate imagination. One of them began when he married the daughter of Satirist Thomas Love Peacock and settled down to earn a living writing poetry...
Ponte worked last summer as a doorman at the University Theatre to earn money for his campaign. For reason of health he is not allowed to do very heavy labor. "The money is about gone," he confided, "though the campaign is just starting...
...from vacation (and a speechmaking trip in Massachusetts), Ike dropped in on the organizational meeting of his Commission on Foreign Economic Policy. A way must be found, he told the group, to "develop new markets for our great productive power and at the same time assist other nations to earn their own living." Chairman Clarence Randall later declined to speculate on how this challenging goal might be achieved. "For a fellow with a loud mouth," he said, "you'd be surprised how tight I can keep...