Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid no attention to the railroad's complaint that the town only gave it $15 worth of passenger business a month. "We don't want to be just another little place like Punkin Center or Bug Scuffle," he cried, and called the city commission into special session. The result: an ordinance which would have forced trains to crawl through town at no more than 15 m.p.h., ring their bells (but not blow their whistles), with a stop for "sanitary inspections" whenever the mayor ordered...
...played to bigger crowds than the Communists. The Reds marched into the Place de la Bastille, lilies of the valley in their lapels artd clenched fists raised skyward. Across the glittering city in the Bois de Boulogne, 100,000 made merry at a Gaullist carnival, ate colored ices, and paid 20 francs for the privilege of firing shooting-gallery rifles at caricatures of Premier Joseph Stalin and French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez...
...overcrowded islands of Japan in a space hardly capable of supporting 50 million. The disaster, which Japan had richly earned, was compounded by a U.S. policy which was designed to keep Japan forever from waging another war. As it turned out, the cost was whopping, and it was paid by the U.S. taxpayer, who had to help support a destitute Japan...
...woman reporter tried the jacket with no effect, but no one paid much attention to her. The curse of the jacket was for more sensitive folk. The very next time Actress O'Foyle put it on, she fainted dead away. "There were hands," she gasped on reviving, "very old hands and very gnarled. They had worked on the land...
...Tempest" is probably Shakespeare's last play and it is certainly the last production by the Theater Workshop. The HTW has amply paid its debt to Shakespeare with this presentation. There's a spell of white-magic over Brattle Hall this week...