Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ragged Army. He gave up his commission in disillusionment-to marry a rich widow, gain election to the House of Burgesses (he bought vast quantities of ale and rum, as was the custom, to get out the vote), and to live the life of a prosperous but restless country gentleman. But he did not falter, 16 years later, as the fever of rebellion swept the colonies. "The . . . peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood or Inhabited by Slaves," he wrote. "Can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice...
...needs trade worse than the West. Its need for capital goods to industrialize China, even of rice to feed it, is the major reason for the ruble offensive. Hence, the West has a bargaining advantage which it would be foolish to sacrifice merely to permit any individual businessmen to gain a few minor, short-lived advantages. For as long as the cold war lasts, the free world, too, must treat trade as a weapon...
...competent for a soul because he was capable of saving that soul. He knew that man was capable of saving not only his soul but himself . . . That man was . . . capable ... of teaching himself to be civilized ... He demanded of man only that we work to deserve and gain these things-liberty, freedom of the body and spirit both, security for the weak and helpless and peace and freedom for all-because these were the most valuable things He could set within our capacity and reach...
...Denial. Cardano prescribed crap-shooting for himself as a relief from his ordinary work and worries. But he often meditated on the disadvantages of the treatment. What, he asked himself, can be gained? "If you have won much money, you may gain hatred, and if you lose, you may gain contempt...
...tropi), Douglas hopes to cause a riot in the realm of race relations. Is he a murderer or merely an owner of a pet, which he has "put to sleep"? If he is a murderer, he may be hanged, but the tropis (and all so-called inferior races) will gain in security and dignity by judicial affirmation that they are human; if he is not a murderer, racists may at last have legal biological grounds for their prejudices...