Word: paupered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general and big-shot purchasing agent for the Air Force, was released from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. After serving 318 days of a one-year sentence for $61,400 income tax evasion, plus 30 days more for failure to pay the $15,000 fine, he signed a pauper's oath and promised to give to the Government, toward payment of the fine, a percentage of any future money he may earn...
...governor also had a few harsh words about doctors' high fees: "I wonder how many Edisons, Einsteins, Lincolns and Pasteurs lie buried in unmarked graves because they were too poor to call a doctor. Doctors, this is your burden and your responsibility . . . The pauper who needs you today was yesterday one of the taxpayers who helped build and maintain our great [University of Oklahoma] School of Medicine, where the doctors of today and tomorrow receive their education. You will be a long time paying this debt...
...risk. The scheme: to set up the first "auxiliary" opera troupe in Met history, and send it across the U.S. and Canada to sing nothing but Fledermaus. The troupe would bring live Met music to cities that never hear it and, Bing hoped, make a tidy profit. Cut the pauper-poor Met could not even pay the freight for such a tour...
...Creek had no geological formations indicating the presence of gold. Only Bob Womack, a cowhand, kept digging for gold in his spare time; he was called "Crazy Bob" for his pains. In January 1891, Crazy Bob struck gold, sold his claim for $500 while drunk celebrating. He died a pauper, but the field he opened up was one of the richest in the world. Out of Cripple Creek's famed mines (Golden Cycle, El Paso, Ajax, Independence, Vindicator, Isabella, Portland) poured a golden flood of more than $500 million...