Word: repaid
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...literary matters, Pushkin had a touchy vanity that was often justified but was no more attractive for all that. In personal affairs, he never forgave a slight, keeping a list of people who had insulted him and carefully noting the date when he considered that he had repaid them. He dueled often, one time so disdainfully that he ate cherries out of his cap and calmly spat the pits in his opponent's direction...
...historians at $50 a day. In proposing the project, however, the President has history on his side. Throughout time, kings, popes and potentates have decreed how they should be remembered. So why should Lyndon Johnson be denied? Vergil was financed by the Emperor Augustus while writing the Aeneid, and repaid his patron with lavish praise of Augustan virtues. Emperor Trajan was so taken by his triumphs, that to satisfy his pride he had 2,500 of his followers' names carved into a 137-ft.-high marble pillar in the Forum at Rome. Alas, the custom has largely fallen into...
...after Johnson became Vice President, his record grew notably liberal. In the House, he supported John F. Kennedy on 95% of all legislation in 1961 and, as a member of the conservative Rules Committee, helped spring many important Administration measures. Honoring a promise to Rayburn, Kennedy repaid that loyalty in 1963 with a judgeship in the Western Texas Federal District Court. Two years later, Johnson elevated Thornberry to the Circuit Court and had him sworn in on the front porch of the L.B.J. ranch...
...usual practice has been to keep whatever dissenting views he had for private sessions with the President. Even in meetings of the Cabinet and the National Security Council, Humphrey felt, disagreement would only invite leaks. Johnson has repaid Humphrey with the highest of praise both in public and private. "When I look back at what I did when I was Vice President," Johnson told a recent Cabinet meeting, "I'd have to give myself a grade of B or B-minus. But when I think how Hubert Humphrey has performed, I'd have to give him a triple A-plus...
...company in order to sell its stock, Regan was dispatched to an SEC public hearing in Washington to explain. Said he simply: "Let's face it. This is one in which we goofed." He went on to explain that Merrill Lynch had already fined the salesmen involved and repaid $116,000 in losses suffered by customers. In recent years, Regan has also been one of the trustees responsible for deciding on charitable donations from the $35 million trust established by Founder Charles Merrill...