Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involved seemed to be based on a different set of facts from Boyle's own defense. Asked at his press conference whether he thought it proper for a party worker to introduce clients to the RFC, Truman said that was O.K.; but it was wrong to take a fee for such a service, whether the party man was a paid or a voluntary party worker. In reply to another question, the President said he was under the impression that Boyle had not taken any fees from Lithofold...
...doctors. Furthermore, they treat ailments that doctors cannot touch. Only brujas can cure children of the evil-eye sickness (one way is to rub the child's forehead with an herb called tronadora). Doctors can do little for the pangs of unlucky love, but any bruja worth her fee knows that a dried hummingbird pinned inside a girl's dress will usually bring back a strayed lover...
...Hamilton might raise rabbits there if he also allowed the townspeople to continue their "golf, futball, schuting . . ." In the late 18th Century the town lost title to the land, but bought it back (for ?5,000) in 1894. To this day, anyone with the price of the greens fee (three shillings and sixpence-about 50?) can play at St. Andrews...
...spring of 1947, when the first round of tuition hikes was circling the country, Harvard stuck to its $400 per year. The next year it succumbed and raised it to $525. The $600 fee began in the fall...
...games each Saturday last season, will now see only one. Two Saturdays will be completely blacked out. Sponsor Westinghouse also wangled a foresighted out: if any TV-scheduled team goes sour and loses its tube appeal, another game may be run in. A canceled college would lose its TV fee, but, as a sympathetic ad man explained, it would be spared "having its shame broadcast...