Word: earns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people a year see that park. On the other hand, 3,750,000 people in the Upper Colorado basin are thirsting for water. I'm all for wilderness areas, but when there is a choice between that and man's chance to earn a living on reclaimed soil, I'm for the working man's chance...
Millions of taxpayers outside these special categories will find a measure of relief in other liberalizations of rules on dependents and deductions. One change lifts a perennial summertime worry from parents of ambitious adolescents. Previously, the parent lost an exemption when a dependent child earned $600 or more during the course of a year. Now, as long as he furnishes more than half the child's total support, a parent may continue to claim exemptions for children under 19 and older children who are full-time students, no matter how much they earn. And the dependent child can continue...
...clear agreement on just what form that hope should take. Many churchmen, notably the Americans, emphasized "practical" action here and now. Said the World Presbyterian Alliance meeting at Princeton (where Hromadka spoke): "Strive to break down racial barriers . . . Promote understanding between classes . . . Provide an opportunity for every man ... to earn a livelihood . . ." Other churchmen, rallying round the eschatological view that sees the Christian hope at the end of the world and not in it, argued that Christianity's place was not primarily in political or ideological battles. Contemplating "the hydrogen and perhaps a cobalt bomb," Presiding Bishop Henry Knox...
...like crime, does not pay-although there are exceptions in both cases. Most artists must neglect their muses to earn their livelihoods, and most of them consider this a shame. Not so a tall, green-eyed Norwegian named Bjorn Sather. Sather, a brilliant painter and woodcut artist, was settling down this week to a day laborer's job in a Montreal furniture factory, yet he thought that everything was just wonderful. He and his wife and two children were able to eat hamburgers again after existing for weeks on spaghetti and oak leaves (oak leaves are good...
...Manhattan, George Hopper, a meat packer from East St. Louis, Ill., hopped into the Hudson River, arms handcuffed behind him, and towed a canoe and two passengers six miles (swimming upstream) to the Jersey shore. Motive: he hoped to earn himself an invitation for a paid TV appearance to help pay for "surgery" for his two sons...