Word: paid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squadron includes three MIG-17s and one MIG-21. Two of the 17s were set down in Israel by blundering Syrian pilots. The third was shot down and repaired with parts from other downed MIG-17s. The faster MIG-21 was flown to Israel by an Iraqi pilot paid to defect by Israeli intelligence. Israeli pilots study and fly all four planes to learn their characteristics...
MAKING things by hand is so time-consuming that a craftsman has to pass his works off as Art. Then people will pay him the high wages accorded to Art, rather than the low wages paid for utilitarian things...
...year behind-the-scenes effort by Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, paid off last Tuesday when President Nixon announced his decision to curtail American chemical and bacteriological warfare (CBW) capability...
...word of Buñuel's enlarging reputation reached Generalissimo Franco, who invited Buñuel back to the old country to make a film, all expenses paid. Biting the handout that fed him, Buñuel created Viridiana, a movie with the inexorable rhythm of a time bomb. Vatican and Franco partisans needed only one look at the scene in which a nun is raped by a beggar; Viridiana was swiftly disowned...
...orgiastic electric guitars. Quite the contrary. Emancipated from religious "superstition," living in a world where science is the final arbiter, we have inherited the pragmatist's Utopia that Voltaire more or less prescribed-and thanks just the same, we know all too accurately the price we have paid...