Word: paid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. She whisks about Paris in a rented black Citroen DS-21 flanked by two motorcycle policemen; the Viet Cong flag, a yellow star against a field of red and blue, flaps conspicuously from the fender. Her limousine has stopped at the Quai D'Orsay, where she paid a courtesy call on Herve Al-phand, former French Ambassador to the U.S. and now secretary-general of the French foreign office. She has attended East bloc receptions, called on the Algerians, Cubans and Cambodians, held teas for leading French Communist women, and visited pro-Communist student organizations. Wherever...
...Brecht had in mind, a man as avid for "a new idea as for an old wine." He nibbles fastidiously at a part that calls for gorging. This glutton of the mind is an intellectual mercenary. He will retract theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian hero-heel, a seemingly intrepid liberator of mankind who is cringingly adept at saving...
...Cambridge City Council voted Monday night to grant a 23 per cent pay raise to City firemen and police over the next two years, making them the highest paid in the Commonwealth. The raises will cost Cambridge about $1,500,000 and will add five dollars to the tax rate...
...girls, 1 husband) about how Harvard and especially the CRIMSON would show up everyone else who had ever been on the program and especially Yale! For years they have heard me talking about the value of a good education, hard work, and much study. Granted, they haven't paid much attention to me, but here was my big chance to prove my point...
...Like we love to play music," said Barry Pierce, a New York underground moviemaker who set up the mobile poster stand, adding that operating the stand helped to provide him and his wife Judy with a paid vacation. "It's sort of a honeymoon actually," he said. The couple, who have been selling the posters throughout the East Coast for a month, will hawk their wares in the Boston area for the next week before leaving for California, Pierce said...