Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel for evacuation. But the sickly infant, in constant danger of death from pneumonia or choking in his own saliva, was still an insupportable burden to his father (a low-paid oilfield worker) and his mother who had four other youngsters to care...
Allegretto. In West Hartlepool, England, Bandmaster Robert Davies paid his fine for speeding, explained: "I was humming one of Liszt's rhapsodies. During one of the quickening passages, I must have unconsciously pressed the accelerator, thereby increasing the tempo of the engine to the tempo of the music...
Profits for Peking. Paid to study for five years, a student need never leave the premises. He gets a private room at low rental; no Moscow hotel serves better food than his cut-rate cafeteria. He can warm his mind in the 1,200,000-book library, cool off in the massive swimming pool. His labyrinthine alma mater is a self-contained city, with 133 elevators and miles of columned marble corridors; its 45,000 rooms include 168 lecture halls and 1,700 first-rate laboratories. Geography students alone have 20 labs, featuring such (militarily) educational gadgets as special projectors...
...corporations mailed out $833 million in dividend checks to their stockholders in October, the Commerce Department reported last week, a record for the month and $13 million above the $820 million paid out in the corresponding month...
...Except for Leyte. the Japanese never made any concerted attacks on U.S. beachheads, and this undoubtedly speeded the pace of the campaigns. After Luzon was secured, 38 major and minor landings were launched in 44 days, a record for amphibious operations unlikely ever to be challenged. If U.S. troops paid for their victories (761 killed in Mindanao), the Japanese overpaid staggeringly for their defeats (25,000 killed in Mindanao...