Word: repaid
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Tyranny was repaid with death. At the end of 96 hours of bloody fighting, the body of President Gualberto Villarroel last week hung from a "lamp post in La Paz's handsome Plaza Murillo. His bemedaled official photograph decorated the sheet that draped his naked body, and one of his military boots hung from under...
...offered to reimburse the Music, Art and Drama Society for its losses on 2,800 tickets. In protesting against "Italy's humiliation," he echoed the frenzied lamentations of Italian politicians and editors, one of whom wrote with rare unconscious humor: "Now the stab in the back has been repaid...
...medium more effective for emphasizing the mysterious hat-box, in which the murderer's guilt is contained. Dame May Whitty, a rather old party whose very name takes the place of a huge neon sign, plays the dowager who bestows her repressed maternal affection on the strangler, and is repaid in trade. She gets her only opportunity for expression in the last act, and shows her years of experience well in building up to a pitch of fear that is broken by the murderer's dramatic entrance, and sends the balcony audience into the rafters. Ruth Homond, a winsome lass...
...loan to England now being discussed by Congress would result in a netgain for the United States if it were not repaid at all," said Seymour Harris, associate professor of Economics, Tuesday night in Emerson D, at the second forum of the present series sponsored by the Harvard Forum and the Radcliffe League for Democracy...
Alcoa got no immediate return for its generosity. But if the move creates enough competition for Alcoa, it may, paradoxically, be repaid, by saving itself from being broken up as a monopoly...