Word: repaid
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...Jefferson, Iowa last week, for his first big foreign-policy speech since returning from abroad, the pros were listening carefully. His main points: the U.S. should devote 10% of its national production for the next ten years to the systematic rebuilding of the world; the U.S. would be repaid in needed raw materials and in the stability it was now trying to create piecemeal...
...well increase rather than decrease the likelihood of another loan application. Britain clings to financial respectability as a bankrupt tycoon might cling to his last good suit, and one of the most powerful arguments against another loan has been the uncertainty that it (or the first one) could be repaid. Furthermore, proud Britons, if they must ask it at all, would far rather ask it as a helpful stimulus to quicker recovery than as a desperate last resort...
...father, the first lawyer in an interminable line of distinguished rabbis, admired Prussia and its official religion. Here is Marx the future socialist, unsocially shunning his school fellows while his mental acrobatics charm Ludwig von Westphalen, a much older man of a much higher social position. Marx later repaid Westphalen for this early interest by marrying his daughter, Jenny, against the wishes of her family. And here is Marx the frustrated poet, wasting his time, and his father's (and later his widowed mother's) slim resources as a shiftless college student. Marx finally received a kind...
...employment and income depends upon our exports. In order to export, then, without materially weakening our real wealth, we must accept imports as repayment. Here the reciprocal agreements play their part, for, by granting concessions on foreign goods, we make importation of them possible and worthwhile. We are repaid in kind, and our foreign customers are furnished the means with which to buy our products...
...Willie didn't know this. Willie thought the Lord was calling him to save the state and so did his wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...