Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smoke. In Chicago, Attorneys Samuel Starr and Bernard Kaufman paid a private detective $40 to find out who stole the cigar butts they left outside in the corridor when they went into the courtroom...
...treasures France's offer of close partnership in unifying Europe. Unlike the Common Market, the Outer Seven arrangement has no supranational institutions and leaves each nation to negotiate tariffs with nonmember nations as it sees fit. This is much to Britain's liking, but it has paid heavily to get it-chiefly in agricultural concessions to Denmark...
Libyans also resent supervision of aid projects by U.S. teams, as the daily Fezzan grumbled: "We receive from America a sum of money that we are not allowed to spend as we see fit. The money is channeled to us through uneconomical agencies that keep highly paid foreign employees and fleets of cars." The sight of U.S. housewives flitting by in outsize station wagons is apt to outrage a poor and proud mule-borne Libyan male who keeps his own wife shrouded in a baracan. Well aware of Libyan sensitivities, embassy and Air Force work hard to avoid riling...
...Wheelus Air Force Base, where under ideal weather conditions shrieking F-IOI and F-102 jet fighters land and take off in flocks of 500 a day. But the U.S. has to listen if the King's ministers want to renegotiate. For the use of Wheelus, the U.S. paid an initial sum of $7,000,000 and 24,000 tons of wheat, agreed to an annual $4,000,000 rental until 1960 and $1,000,000 a year after that for eleven years. Libya has now demanded ten times as much-a whopping $40 million a year-in rent...
Every now and then a strong gust of wind whipped through the big stadium at Pusan, but at first the 70,000 children and parents in the audience paid no attention. Onstage, as the restless bunting snapped and waved, a troop of comedians and singers was putting on a special children's show, and the audience giggled and roared. But some among the parents began to notice black clouds massing in the sky, and remembered that a typhoon had been reported offshore that very morning. The performers sensed the danger, too, for they began to race through their acts...