Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis which mushroomed 150 miles to the north. Hungry Ruhr workers began a series of food strikes; at Solingen. Essen, Düsseldorf, Mühlheim, and then in Munich in the U.S. zone, workers laid down their tools. Food distribution had been bumbled. Local German governments paid scant attention to the food quotas set up by the present bizonal Economic Council, which was powerless to enforce its orders. The new economic courts, invested with power superior to the individual states, would be able to prosecute and penalize the state governments for noncooperation...
...Hokkekyo to undergo 100 days of purification and study. At the temple gateway stood Chief Priest Nissei Nakakita, asking the novices for six times last year's entrance fee. For three months of contemplation and 700 duckings in the ice-cold waters of the temple pump, 58 novices paid the inflated rate. Outside "the door that is not opened" devoted followers waited eagerly for their cries as freezing water coursed down their naked bodies...
...Originally he intended to be a painter, and earned his way through a Boston art school playing the piano, the violin or the saxophone in restaurant bands. Not until he got out of the Navy after World War I, at 26, did he decide to compose instead. The saxophone paid his way" through Harvard's music school, too. Now the head of Harvard's music department, he insists that his students know the rules before they break them. He has the reputation of being averse to melody, and is a little sensitive about it. Once someone praised...
Dixon Wecter, and Louis B. Wright of the Huntington Library. The only paid staffer is Managing Editor Edith Ronald Mirrielees, 69, a retired English professor who does her editing perched on a cushioned Governor Winthrop chair in the cozy study of her Palo Alto home...
Hollywood's way out seemed to be escape movies and relatively inexpensive little formula pictures about domestic life that Hollywood knew would pay off; they had generally paid off before...