Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville, Ky., William F. Holliger, 23-year-old G.O.P. precinct captain, paid off an election bet, jumped into the Ohio River clutching a Dewey campaign picture...
This week the grand jury indicted Thomas and his onetime secretary, Helen Campbell, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. It charged that for five years they had padded his office payroll so that salaries paid to two fictitious employees could be routed to Thomas' bank account. Thomas was accused of 34 instances of wrongdoing. If convicted, he would be liable to a maximum sentence of 32 years in prison, $40,000 fines, or both...
Most of the ABC show was just a televised version of the network's radio coverage-bad TV practice, but in this case it paid off. By & large, radio reported the 1948 election better than TV. It had the pacing, organization and assurance that the cub reporter still lacked...
Translator Knox is unconcerned about the Bible as "literature." He paid scant attention to the rich, rhythmic prose of the King James version. He worked directly from the Latin, Hebrew and Greek texts, hoping to get the sense across and letting the poetry fall where it might. But he avoided using a specifically modern idiom because it would soon be obsolete again; his aim was to achieve a kind of timeless English...
...many a radio store last week, hired snoops shopped busily for bargains. They were paid to hunt radio & television sets selling for less than the manufacturer's factory list price. Stores that made cut-rate sales were summarily cut off from factory shipments. Something called "fair trade" was at work...