Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds, the best of the 90-or-so Kennedy books that have appeared in the two years since Dallas. It has won Schlesinger critical acclaim and considerable affluence as well. With 175,000 copies in print and a fifth printing set for January, he stands to earn well into six figures...
...make a dollar," Richard Cone mailed eight packages of marijuana home from Panama. When he returned to Manhattan and picked up his parcel, U.S. customs agents arrested him. Minutes later, while walking to a Government car, Cone confessed; he freely gave evidence that helped earn him a five-year sentence for smuggling narcotics. Later he appealed, basing his argument on the Supreme Court's controversial 1964 decision Escobedo v. Illinois, which ruled that when investigation shifts to accusation, police must tell all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel-and that any confession made without such warning...
...their birthdays-and that's about it. Many millionaires say that they worry that all the money may soften their youngsters, rob them of incentive and aggressiveness. To fight that possibility, Boston Real Estate Millionaire Gerald Blakeley, 45, has a rigid rule: his four sons have to earn every penny that they spend from the time that they are twelve-"and that's every penny...
Fifty of the youths will be high school students with part time jobs. The other hundred will be out-of-school Cambridge teenagers working 32 hours a week. All of the enrollees in the Youth Corps will earn $1.25 per hour...
Four years ago, the Beach Boys' drummer was sleeping in a garage in Hawthorne, Calif., a bleak beach suburb of Los Angeles, and sweeping out a laundromat to earn enough money to buy wax for his surfboard and Budweiser for himself. He had just been suspended from Hawthorne High School for starting a bloody free-for-all during a physical education class and getting drunk that night at a basketball game. After his suspension, he sullenly avoided high school friends at the usual Saturday morning surf spots and practiced elsewhere along the beaches south of Los Angeles...