Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This stone Commemorates the exploit...
...Free us, sir, from Yankee imperialism,"? said the spokesman. "Peruvians don't hate foreigners who come to work with us. We hate those who come to exploit...
...Explained the flyers: "A cracked crank case." Observed Manager Pickens: "Not enough money. They'd have been saps to stay up." Gross rewards: possibly $30,000 in gifts, contracts for advertising and appearance at fairs. The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose by the Brothers Tex, Dick & Bud Rankin, noted airmen of the West...
Frankly trading on the interest created by Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and cinema films of his exploit now showing throughout Britain and the U. S., Commander Stenhouse. who sailed to the Antarctic under Shackleton in 1909, said last week in his prospectus...
...paid little attention. Through months of talking and brooding the thought of winning that case became a mania eating up all his other thoughts. By degrees it developed a corollary. He felt that to get the hearing he wanted he must attract attention, make himself famous by some remarkable exploit or else hurt himself so badly and spectacularly that the British Government in South Africa and the whole world would listen when he told what a spectacular injustice had been inflicted upon...