Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury had also heard government witnesses describe Miss Gillars as a willing and highly paid propagandist for the Nazis, and one who had done her insinuating best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops in Africa and Italy. The jury could be forgiven for keeping its eyes dry through her courtroom performance...
...first legislature. It had finally discovered and approved the principle of the secret ballot (only South Carolina still held out against it). It had passed a law requiring blood tests before marriage and it had approved a program to raise the depressed level of education in Georgia (the paid lobbyist for more education was Hummon's chief crony, ex-Speaker Roy Harris...
President Truman expressed himself as "immensely gratified." Trygve Lie put in a sorely needed plug for the U.N. Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok voiced a rather astonishing accolade to Egypt's sybaritic King Farouk: "Tribute must be paid to the realism and courage of the Egyptian monarch and government, their breadth of vision and . . . bold statesmanship...
...Chance. During the breathing spell between strike vote and walkout, U.S. educated Socialist Narain talked with the government. By Feb. 16, he told his railroad men that the government had granted a $3 monthly pay raise to low-paid employees and would consider other demands. The union leaders voted to postpone the strike. But some rank-&-filers wanted their full contract rights. The Communists grabbed their chance...
...article on new college coaches, Life Magazine stated that Hickman "could eat more than any two men alive." The contest, which was to be paid for by the loser, was never staged...