Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intimidate directly or by satellites . . . In the balanced consideration of our problems, we shall end neglect of the Far East, which Stalin has long identified as the road to victory over the West . . .* We shall support the United Nations . . . We shall not try to buy good will. We shall earn it by sound, constructive, self-respecting policies and actions...
Gardner Cox, 46, is a talented Massachusetts painter with a happy outlook and a common-sensical approach to art that New Englanders can admire. To earn a living, he paints commission portraits of famous figures and Boston's citizens; the rest of his time he spends experimenting with abstractions and searching for new ways to express himself. At Cape Cod's new Mayo Hill Galleries last week, people got a chance to see how the portraiture and experiments had turned...
...Jobs & Seminars. Enthusiastically, 30 of them went to work on "Project India." They had no money, no promises of help, and most of them were already busy working their way through college. But they took on extra odd jobs to earn the $250 they figured it would cost each of them to stay in India for two months. One worked as a clerk, another in the library, another helped out at primary elections. Their enthusiasm spread across the campus. The local chapter of Alpha Phi went without desserts and saved $80 for the project. Sunday-school classes contributed their pennies...
...first ballot, some think he might go for MacArthur-a safe way to temporize-and then jump either on an Ike or a Taft bandwagon. But there is some question whether Fine can hold on to his bloc of delegates that long. Also, a last-minute decision will earn him less gratitude from the nominee than an earlier commitment...
...prebreakfast hike, taught with explosive severity ("Son, you sound like you have a mouthful of mush"), worked with such ferocity that he left the rest of the campus panting ("I hope to die on Saturday," he would say, "so there'll be no necessity to miss classes"). To earn money for his collecting, he started the Armstrong Educational Tours, raised a fortune for manuscripts, first editions and such items as Browning's ring and snuffbox. The collection is now housed in a $2,000,000 Renaissance library on the Baylor campus at Waco, Texas-"a place," said...