Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gained widespread respect for his supervision of the Panmunjom prisoner exchange after the Korean War, then rose to commander-in-chief of the Indian army, but quit in 1959 over the pro-Red policies of Defense Minister Krishna Menon, only to return following Menon's ouster and earn the Cyprus job, which he carried out so well that the U.N. Security Council had just voted to extend his stay by three months; of a heart attack; in Nicosia, Cyprus...
...that run about 25% higher than in the U.S. When Morrison-Knudsen recently queried its U.S.-based employees about going to Viet Nam, 58 of the 60 men working on a missile site in Grand Forks, N. Dak., volunteered to go. Once in Viet Nam, the men more than earn their money. They must sign up for 18 months, work up to 70 hours a week in 130° heat, have little opportunity for recreation, face such hazards as malaria and 18-ft. pythons...
...started with at least some inherited wealth but, like women the world over, were encouraged by education to escape the housewife's role and test themselves in man's arena. Furthermore, as living costs have risen so has the women's desire to help their husbands earn a larger share of the good life. Thai husbands, who have a strong preference for dignified but low-paying careers in civil service and law, left a vacuum in the business community that the women have rushed to fill. Consequently, their roles cut across the entire spectrum of Thailand...
Unseeing, hopelessly ignorant because she has never been to school, a blind girl gropes through a squalid, nightmare life. Her name is Selina. All day long she sits alone in a city tenement, stringing costume-jewelry beads to earn her keep. Her grandfather (Wallace Ford) is a maudlin old drunk. Her mother (Shelley Winters at her strident best) is a fat, vicious trollop who accidentally caused Selina's blindness years ago, now despises her for deserving pity...
...playing around a bit himself. The gamest girl he knows is a man-eating blonde TV commentator (Honor Blackman) who lives by a rule that might well raise obstacles for Joe: "Only one thing I ask from you-be honest." Joe follows his mistress to Lon don to earn success on his own merit, but every thread of his being leads straight back home to Brown & Hether-sett's woolens...