Word: pay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five observers not on the Student Council were chosen, after application, as other Council committee members are picked, except that each had to agree to pay...
...north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout his party's offer of a nationwide pension plan that would enable all British workers to retire at 65 on half pay...
...Japanese announcement brought cries of outrage from South Korea's Syngman Rhee, who argued that the repatriates should go to South Korea-but insisted that the Japanese government must first pay "compensation" for the Koreans' years of "forced labor" in Japan. Unmoved, the Japanese pushed ahead, and, with the cooperation of the International Red Cross, set up a repatriation scheme that included a big proviso. Japan's condition: before boarding ship, each would-be repatriate would be asked privately by Japanese and Red Cross officials, "Do you wish to change your mind?" Last week...
...insist that they have not confined their history to the seamy politics of Warren Gamaliel Harding, no one who remembers the Teapot Dome scandal will feel obliged to believe them. Not that telling the truth is bad theater, but in this case it does not seem to pay. Melvyn Douglas does nobly as the ash-flaked, unbuttoned ex-Senator trying to forget the presidency, an office he neither understands nor is fitted for, and veteran Comedian Bert Wheeler is a natural as his poker-playing sidekick. But, reported the Philadelphia Bulletin, it is "a curiously unfocused play." Authors Lawrence...
...such stimulation, Chevy itself may pay a price. Some of autodom's biggest wheels reckon that one out of every five compact sales will come out of the standard models of Chevy, Plymouth or Ford. Atlanta Dealer Paul Timmers echoes what many a savvy salesman says: "The compacts are going to give us our Biggest year in 1960, but they will take away sales from our regular line...