Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown skated on even terms with B.C. after the first six minutes of the championship game, but B.C.'s tremendous opening burst was enough to earn it the title...
...Titled Below the Surface: The Confessions of an Olympic Champion (William Morrow; $5), it has the splash of a poolside Peyton Place. "Olympic morals," Dawn confides, "are far more loose than any outsider would expect. There's material in the average Olympic Village for a thesis which might earn any budding Kinsey a Ph.D." Dawn should know. She's been going to the Olympics since 1956 -and taking notes, apparently, all the while...
...average person's monthly income is 600 East marks, or $270 at the unrealistic official rate of exchange, but only $38 at the free market rate. A pound of coffee costs 32 marks, the cheapest suit 150, a simple dress imported from Switzerland between 400 and 600. To earn such "luxuries," most people work beyond their normal 45 hours a week, or moonlight, or put their wives to work...
Asbell's exaggerated faith in machines leads him to make a molehill out of a mountain. He rejoices in the obvious virtues of automation--the effects it is easy to be ecstatic over. Nobody doubts, for instance, that automation will prove a blessing to people who now have to earn their living by sweeping floors or working on assembly lines...
...owned a car," he says. "I drove an Opel and then a Biscayne for two years, and I learned to know every road and every Mozambican in the Rhodesias." On one return trip to Mozambique he was arrested by the authorities, who could not believe that an African could earn enough money...