Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigated by the Bureau of Un-American Affairs?" In a burst of generosity he handed his wristwatch to a Pittsburgh steelworker who offered him a stogie. He bowed his head respectfully for the luncheon invocation in Pittsburgh (where his aides had told him religion was important), and he paid his respects to Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic Bishop John J. Wright, who had counseled courteous treatment...
...another, and brought bedlam with him. He rolled unannounced into the hiring hall of the International Longshoremen's union, embraced the union's Red-lining Boss Harry Bridges as tovarish, genially swapped his felt hat for a longshoreman's white cap. Wearing his new cap, he paid a call on International Business Machines Co. President Thomas Watson Jr., toured the IBM plant at San Jose, watched a thinking man's brain as it chattered through its electronic paces, lined up for lunch in the company cafeteria. There, for the first time he uttered a telling sentence...
...dislikes doing housework, "though I know how to do it," now has "a cook, a maid and a girl to serve the table, but they are paid by the state. I used to go out shopping myself, but now I order it and it is delivered...
Subscription rates for Cambridge's only breakfast daily are $9.50, if paid before Oct. 20, and $10.00 if paid after that date. The newspaper is delivered Monday through Saturday to your door, whether in dormitories or in Cambridge residences...
...larger issue encompasses many of the UMass problems: How much control should the state government exert over its land-grant college? Massachusetts has gained a certain notoriety for the inordinate amount of academic control held by the state legislature. For example, the University of Massachusetts cannot keep any fees paid to it--tuition, board charges, room rents--but must turn the money over to the General Fund of the Commonwealth...