Word: payed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both Parliament and the press there was an immediate outcry. "What action is being taken against the people who beat Podola unconscious?" shouted Laborite Reginald Paget in the House of Commons. Hard-bitten Fleet Street reporters chipped in to pay for Podola's defense. But when the time came for Podola's trial last week, it was neither police brutality nor ordinary insanity at the time of the crime that was offered as Podola's defense. Instead, Defense Counsel Frederick Lawton, Q.C., argued that "a very, very severe fright," possibly triggered by the events of Podola...
...postwar growth rates remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...
...dream college. Varner recruited 25 of the nation's best young teachers (average age: 33) as the nucleus of his faculty; almost all are Ph.D.s v. an average of 30% in other colleges. He managed to pry $670,-ooo out of the money-strapped Michigan legislature to pay the first year's salaries and maintenance, and with help from some of the country's top scholars laid out a challenging curriculum...
...primary level. At one brand-new school near London's fashionable South Kensington, the curb is lined with Bentleys, Jaguars and nannies when classes let out each afternoon. Says one U mother: "If I can get this school's facilities for nothing, why should I pay to send my child to some school in a stuffy converted mansion...
Meanwhile, the cost of consumer loans was sharply rising. In New York, First National City Bank posted a new schedule of charges keyed to the rising cost of money. A representative change: the buyer of a car hereafter will pay the equivalent of 7.8% interest for a bank loan instead...