Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were in greater peril when we were less worried, when all the present evils were layered over by our national smugness. We may even be on the mend. But our salvation will never be handed to us. If we are lucky, we will be given the chance to earn it. Unfortunately, we are enormously clever at avoiding self-examination...
...know for sure until the close of the Coop's fiscal year at the end of June, Brown is afraid that the membership rebates will have to be cut again this year. "Nobody wants to cut them," says Brown. "But we can't pay what we don't earn. As they say, you can't get blood out of a turnip...
Sophomore John Imrie turned in one of the most outstanding performances of the winter sports season last weekend as he pinned three opponents to earn Harvard's six points in the NCAA Championships at Brigham Young University...
...Oblivion. Joni seriously took up music only five years ago. A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she casually began playing the ukulele at 20, while an art student at Calgary, and drifted into folk music. In Toronto, she worked as a salesgirl to earn the $140 union fee so that she could perform in city cafes. Success was still out of sight when she met, married and eventually was divorced from a folk singer named Chuck Mitchell in Detroit. Meanwhile she had taken the first step out of oblivion by starting to write her own folk-styled songs...
...indicated only that it will back tighter restrictions on con glomerate mergers, part-time farmers and foundations. If Congress cannot agree on a basic way to correct today's inequities, it may unfortunately choose a halfway approach suggested by Stanley Surrey. He would require all earn ers to pay at least a minimum tax at rates approximately one-half of normal, thus putting a ceiling on the benefits of tax preferences. In return, no person would have to pay more than 50% of his total income in federal income taxes. Officials of the Nixon Treasury and many reform-minded...