Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. The first said: "You will pay 100 gold pounds to the Democratic [Communist] Army." George threw the letter in the fireplace. Soon the second arrived. "If you don't pay you'll have a difficult time." When that was ignored, a third threatened: "If not paid immediately we will have your head -you'll be slaughtered in the marketplace like a steer...
Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...
...delegates to the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, they had come to listen, vote, sing such old favorites as A Bicycle Built for Two, and take in the sights. Many of them also had a shock. At home they had never seen such prices as they paid for meals in Atlantic City's restaurants...
Last week the directors got their wish, and fast-growing Beaunit Mills, Inc. got a bargain. Highest of four bidders, Beaunit paid OAP $17,111,126 for the Government's controlling interests (some 52% in North American and 45% in Bemberg). Beaunit would probably have had to pay more than three times as much to duplicate the plants at Elizabethton, Tenn...
Statue. The climax of Thomas' career came at Chickamauga, on Sept. 20, 1863, when his corps of perhaps 20,000 men held up the entire Confederate Army under Bragg (over 50,000), after Thomas' superior, Rosecrans, had retreated to Chattanooga. Contemporaries paid so much attention to the blunders of both Rosecrans and Bragg that Thomas' achievement seemed less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both...