Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This famine endangers the Tito regime so that the Marshal will have to import $50,000,000 in foodstuffs if he is to avoid mass starvation in Yugoslavia. He will be forced to cancel a large grain export program with which he hoped to earn money for the purchase of machinery. Discontent is already growing on the countryside; only two weeks ago starving peasants in the village of Selo burned local government headquarters. Similar outbreaks may convince Russia that the time is ripe to bring Yugoslavia back into the Cominform fold by getting rid of Tito and the Titoists...
Fifteen years ago, Joe Bushkin was the kind of talented kid who could sit in at the piano in any jazz joint in town and earn himself $10 a night. He couldn't read music very well, but he could climb all over the piano with a solid, hard-riffing style that earned him a lot of respect from people like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and others...
...Passive Revolution" earned Koreans little foreign sympathy; but it strengthened the determination of Korean patriots. Late in 1919 independence leaders from Korea and from Korean communities in exile gathered in Shanghai. Rhee, who feared that Chinese police might collar him to earn the $300,000 price placed by the Japanese on his head, was smuggled into Shanghai's International Settlement in a coffin. There he helped establish the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, became its first President...
...Rhee's cabinet members displayed administrative talent of a high order. Outstanding among them was Defense Minister Shin Sung Mo, who likes to be called "Captain," a rank he held in the British merchant marine during World War II. ("It's the title I worked hardest to earn.") It was Shin Sung Mo who masterminded the rapid reorganization of the R.O.K. army after its staggering initial defeats. Outstanding, too, was another Shin. Though not a Rhee supporter, able, eloquent Shin Ikhui, Speaker of the National Assembly, worked closely with the cabinet, helped make the Assembly a wartime asset...
...lower orders." Thus an article in 1873, entitled The Little Laborers of New York City," unemotionally reported that of the 100,000 children working in the factories many were permitted "to take home enough material to do extra work, after the regular ten-hour day, in order to earn more than the standard $3 per week." But Harper's could wax indignant about the plight of Vassar girls who had no clothes closets in their dormitory, and for whom Matthew Vassar had prescribed "two nails on the walls of their rooms, one for their school dress...