Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few minutes later, however, the Crimson policy paid off as Captain Graney drove his blue-line shot into the lower left corner of the cage...
Acres of solidly packed humanity, stretching as far as the eye could see, paid the final mass tribute to the President. Nehru said it was the greatest civic reception he ever has seen at the sprawling Ram Lila Park between Old and New Delhi. It was the largest crowd Eisenhower ever has faced...
...urged him to be "cautious and realistic" in his coming dealings with the Russians. Ike assured the Turks that U.S. willingness to negotiate with the U.S.S.R. did not mean that the U.S. would give ground. That evening, at a dinner in the presidential palace, the President of the U.S. paid his own unique tribute to the doughty land that had done him such honor. Said he: "No power on earth, no evil, no threat can frustrate a people of your spirit...
...companies were satisfied with Clay's code. When they paid him, they wanted to hear their records played. But Clay did not always oblige. Chicago's Chess and Checker record companies, Clay claims, got so mad at him one year that they did not even send him a Christmas card. "That really bugged me," he recalls. "So the man says, 'Didn't you get the silver plate for Christmas?' I said no. When he gets back to Chicago, he phones me and says, 'Tommy, baby'-when they say 'baby,' look...
...Biographer St. Johns reports, Builder Eaton still has one foot in the graveyard. He takes a paternal interest in some 900 well-paid employees and issues periodic denunciations of other cemeteries, which, as a Forest Lawn Art Guide once put it, "cry out men's utter hopelessness in the face of death." To this statement Novelist Waugh somewhat tartly replied that "by far the commonest feature of other graveyards is still the Cross, a symbol in which previous generations have found more Life and Hope than in the most elaborately watered evergreen shrub...