Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment pulling out of Europe. Beyond that conclusion, Europeans find U.S. intentions obscure. Neither the words of Washington nor the explanations of their own governments have persuaded most Europeans, for example, that Marshall Plan aid is not basically just another loan-that is supposed to be paid back some day, with interest. How poorly U.S. aid has been described abroad is clear from the fact that 62% of the Frenchmen interviewed, and 61% of the Britons, think that ERP is fundamentally a loan. Italians are either much better informed or temperamentally more sanguine: only 25% of them think that...
...freight trains got through to Berlin without being challenged. And, finally, the Russians grudgingly agreed to meet with the Western Powers to "clarify" their terms, if not alter them. For a time, it appeared, there would be an uneasy truce-until the Russians probed elsewhere. Patience and firmness had paid off again...
...jinx him, his benchmates made a point of not looking at him or speaking to him unless he asked them a question. ("Then I'd get a quick, choppy answer.") Their efforts paid off: Murry Dickson got the first one-man spring-training no-hitter in nine years...
...helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton, Alfred Drake) toward Broadway or Hollywood fame. And to her happy angels (among them: Producers Max Gordon and Lee Shubert, Playwright S. N. Behrman) she had paid...
...Odegard and E. Allen Helms in American Politics (Harper; 947) say, "Definitions of social and economic classes in modern society are difficult to make, nd particularly so in the United States. . . . The middle class might be defined as including those whose income is derived from salaries, commissions, or fees paid for services...