Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Lean and wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ibs.), caustic and witty, brusque Yankee. Married in 1923 to Rachel White, who regularly packed his lunches while he was governor, once repaid him for morning grouchiness by filling his sandwiches with laundry soap. On another occasion, Adams objected to Rachel's driving the family car to morning-coffee sessions with neighboring housewives, padlocked the garage door. His wife entered the garage through a side door, rocked the car back & forth until she pushed the front doors off their hinges. The Adamses have three daughters, a son and three grandchildren...
...past seven years, the U.S. assisted the rest of the world to the extent of $38 billion, the U.S. Commerce Department figured out last week. About $10 billion of the amount was in loans, of which $3 billion already has been repaid. Put another way, for every dollar the U.S. Government took in since 1945, it handed over or loaned out 11? to foreign states...
...state could extend to the Council a partial subsidy towards building a station, to be repaid in air time once the station is operating. Since the Lowell Institute is a non-profit organization, there is no limit-on the amount of money the state could give, while a strict allotment of air time could easily regulate the extent of its participation...
...gait (the result of an old leg injury) was the only swaggering thing about Charles Keene. His sole aim in life was to make Punch readers laugh, and he was often desperate for jokes to illustrate. When someone offered a good idea, Keene invariably repaid the favor by generously sending him the original drawing. Only in his last years did it occur to him that they might be valuable, and even then he rarely charged...
...draws an average of 53,000 fans a game, and has rewarded its loyal rooters with six league championships and three Football Cups in the past 20 years. Chelsea, whose London fans are just as prepared to laugh as to cheer, draws an average of 38,000. It has repaid this loyalty by never winning a league championship, by losing its only cup final (1915), and by falling twice into the second division, i.e., a lower league...