Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 4200 predominantly middle class, white well wishers, who paid from $25 to $1000 for a seat, cheered as the show opened with Vegas-styled comedian Pat Henry...
...remaining minutes of the game saw Harvard fluster the Husky defense with short passes. The fancy stickwork paid off with 11:15 remaining, when Annie MacMillan's first goal of the year narrowed the margin...
...decided to play Ecevit's game, by luring several of the Premier's supporters over to the opposition. In the by-elections, Demirel's party campaigned for the five lower-house seats and 50 (out of 183) senate seats as if the voting were nationwide. It paid off. The Justice Party won all five of the lower-house seats and picked up 33 of the 50 senate seats...
...virtually killing his bid for the presidency in 1974. The Duck also unearthed some questionable financial dealings by the murdered Prince Jean de Broglie, a man with close ties to the Giscard administration, and printed the income tax dossiers of both Giscard and Aviation Tycoon Marcel Dassault. The government paid Le Canard a bumbling tribute one night when its agents were discovered in the paper's offices trying to implant bugging devices. "Watergaffe," quacked the Duck, and proudly proclaimed itself "the most listened-to newspaper in France...
...paid a partial price for his apostasy: sneers, vilification, few invitations to literary parties. Those who attacked him assumed an attitude of moral superiority. In an atmosphere of growing intellectual conformity, rational debate became irrelevant. During a discussion among antiwar protesters, for example, one participant expressed fear that the Communists might take over Viet Nam if the U.S. withdrew. Jason Epstein, who helped launch the New York Review of Books, scornfully responded: "So you like to see little babies napalmed." End of discussion...