Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winfield and Sam Fouts provided the brightest spots for the Harvard swordsmen. Winfield's two victories in the sabre proved enough to earn him a slot on the first all-Ivy team. Over the season the Crimson junior outdueled 11 of his 15 Ivy foes. Only two other sabremen tout better records...
...from a blonde Swedish snow bunny named Toini Gustafsson. A gymnastics teacher, Toini already had won the 10-kilometer cross-country; in the 5-kilometer, trailing Russia's Galina Koulakova by 4 sec. with one kilometer to go, she made a kamikaze dive down the last slope to earn a second gold medal...
...musicians have apparently responded to Club 47's call for help. Wellknown musicians have been appearing lately, drawing capacity crowds. The club cannot afford to pay famous performers what they usually earn, so Linardos is paying them whatever he can afford at the moment...
...learned, and is still learning in Viet Nam, the limits of power expand into exasperation. Determined not to use its nuclear might, a big power must be doubly cautious with its conventional weapons. For no one can be certain of the level of warfare that might earn a smaller belligerent some nuclear assistance from outside. And these days, even conventional arms are so devastating that they demand restraint...
...Island story begins in Arkansas where a crew chief, himself a Negro, recruits his workers ("All you've got to do is get on my bus"). He barely mentions the $30 fare that begins the treadmill of debt. Sometimes, in picking strawberries at 10? per quart, the migrants earn only $2 for their day's work. But the crew chief deducts $1.25 a day for transportation to the fields. He also overcharges them for their filthy accommodations, for their food (a concession controlled by his wife), and the 51?-a-pint payday wine that he sells...