Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect, the U.S. policy for the countries of Southeast Asia is: yes, you shall have some candy-one piece at a time-but you must earn it, and then say please. And you mustn't spoil your dinner. To the Communists, the U.S. also said: we're fond of Southeast Asia, but not prepared to fight...
...coaxing a few words from a six-year-old who had never spoken; teaching a girl to sew a straight hem or weave a towel. But she also fought for places in the outside world for students she felt were ready, every year sent 15 or 20 out to earn their own way. During World War II she had the satisfaction of seeing a hundred of her "boys" accepted for service...
...curved hair brush ("if your husband can use it, it proves he hasn't a flat head") and Stanley combs which "never go to the dentist, because their teeth stay in." In 45 minutes, she showed 50 different items, took in $43 in orders-more than enough to earn a set of table knives for her hostess, and a commission of about $14 for herself...
...parents moved to California when he was a child and he first lifted what he recalls as a "deep, woolly but unmanageable" voice in the Hollywood High School Glee Club. He graduated to the Los Angeles City College opera and the chorus at Hollywood Bowl. To help earn his keep, he dubbed his voice into movie sound tracks, sang in nightclubs and in Los Angeles synagogues and churches. In 1943, he got his first big break with San Francisco's crack opera company. Last summer, after a concert tour of the U.S., he decided to try his luck...
...Northern commanders who followed Little Mac fare better, but none of them (Burnside, Hooker, Meade) had the considered aggressiveness that was needed when the battle was the payoff. Even when he outsmarted Lee, "Fighting Joe" Hooker (a nickname he didn't earn and didn't relish) failed to follow up effectively because he lacked Lee's (and Grant...