Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bucked up to Prison Superintendent W. K. Cunningham Jr., who responded by demanding the names of the other Black Muslims. When Howard refused to give them, he was packed off to the maximum-security ward, where prisoners get only two meals a day, are not permitted to work or earn money, are deprived of radio, TV and movies, denied access to the library and educational classes, and allowed one bath a week...
...when the film with its cast of English, Irish and Scottish stage actors is released simultaneously in 135 U.S. and 15 European cities next March, it will play for a mere three days to reserved-seat audiences -which ought to be enough, Executive Producer Walter Reade Jr. figures, to earn a reasonable profit on the $1,000,-000 investment. With such short exposure, says Reade, "the blue-nosed censors" will still be rubbing their eyes after the flash flood of consciousness has gone roaring...
...cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both tobacco companies and smokers seem to think so. In 1952, only 2% of cigarettes manufactured in the U.S. were filtered; last year, when more cigarettes were sold than ever before, 64.7% had tips purportedly capable of straining out dangerous substances...
...remained incommunicado in his expensive Houston home, emerged at one point in his bathrobe to shoo newsmen away. Outsiders could only recall the boast of one Westec official last May that, while Westec was not yet "a Litton, a Textron or other industrial giant, it is our intention to earn a position among such a line-up." Some lineup...
...honor of his bride (Maria Grazia Buccella) is worth. A few days later he discovers it was worth less than he thought. The police inform him that 1) the million-lira check has bounced, and 2) he will go to jail unless he can explain what he did to earn so much money...