Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screamed to the accompaniment of three guitars and a thunderous drum), they are apparently irresistible to the English. A short year ago, they were back in Liverpool singing such songs as Twist and Shout and Love Me Do into the din of the tough Merseyside pubs. Now they earn $5,000 a week playing one-night stands all over Britain. Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them...
...four lines are now in good shape, and of the four none has greater reason to cheer than TWA. After losing $20 million in two years, the line has climbed back into the black, and this year expects to earn $10 million or more. President Tillinghast, 52, is so confident of TWA's good health that last week he broke off the merger agreement made with Pan American last December, when TWA's plight was still perilous...
...What I have been arguing for in essence is a competition to see which institution will quickly earn a high reputation for preparing well-trained teachers," Conant concludes. But lost the professional educators claim he is really arguing for chaos, Conant, while upholding the freedom of colleges to experiment, outlines a draft program of academic and professional preparation for teachers. Academic professors who thought Conant was taking their side will find his criticism of academic programs every bit as strong as his criticism of education courses...
...illusion than the comfortable doctrine that the world owes us a living, that whatever we do, whenever we run into trouble, we can always rely on a special relationship to bail us out. From now on, Britain will have just as much influence in the world as we can earn and can deserve. We have no accumulated reserves on which to live...
...Englishmen can build the New Jerusalem of William Blake's vision. It was Britain's hunger for a better-ordered world that swept a Labor government to power in 1945. In the wilderness since 1951, Labor has fought ceaselessly to shape the coherent contemporary philosophy that might earn its passage back to power. It did not succeed because its leaders always came up with dreary, dogmatic formulas that were remote from the everyday lives and problems of the people...