Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lose our lives young and some when we are older." At the Lai Khe mess hall later on, he insisted upon examining the garbage cans "because I wanted to see how much food they were eating." The soldier whom he watched eat the most got a typical Romney reward: one of his medallions...
...INCHLING by Momoko Ishii, illustrated by Fuku Akino (Walker; $3.50). Another old Japanese fable, handsomely illustrated. The hero is no bigger than a man's thumb and is resigned to life as a paperweight for a beautiful princess. But then he slays a dreadful demon, and guess what his reward is? A wish on a magic mallet transforms him into a full-size man and he marries the princess to live happily ever after...
...Grisly Desolation. For one more day and night the two battalions waited while fighter-bomber pilots hammered the head off the hill, flying some 150 strikes during the battle. The next morning, the weary G.I.s claimed their reward at last. Scaling the ridge, they met only scattered sniper fire and a few mortars lobbed from a nearby hill. The North Vietnamese had abandoned Hill 875 during the night, taking many of their dead with them. The summit was a grisly desolation of charred and splintered trees, burned-out machine guns and blackened fragments of bodies...
...individualists. The colonists were so unimpressed by the Revolution that one-third of them sided with Britain. At Valley Forge, George Washington wrote that patriotic idealism could not inspire his ragged, ill-trained army, that it must be toughened by "a prospect of interest or some reward." He meant cash. Only well after victory did the shaky American nation burst forth with an optimistic self-image based on the idea that the humane spirit of 18th century enlightenment could be fully realized for the first time anywhere. General Washington called himself "a citizen of the great republic of humanity...
...they did last year, when terrorists mortared the National Day reviewing stand, Saigon police rounded up all known Communists and raided their usual haunts. The capital's 15,000 police have been newly armed with carbines, and Police Chief Nguyen Van Luan offered an $8,400 reward for information leading to the capture of potential terrorists. There will be plenty of cells for them: to celebrate the inauguration, some 6,000 civilian and military prisoners will be amnestied and released from jail...