Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eras in which life was a cruel trial of disease and despair, there was deep comfort in the dream of heaven as God's good-conduct reward. Now that man has more and more conquered nature, eternity has become more and more distant. "A certain satisfaction with this world has replaced the aspiration for heaven," says Italy's Roman Catholic Philosopher Ettore Albino. "A consumer society gives man happiness even if it is superficial. Nobody wants to hear of hell...
...turnstiles far enough to allow carbon brushes to make the contacts necessary to send electrical impulses to the computers Counting attendance. At one point, officials had to send people down to "eyeball" the entrants. Because of the tangle in counting arrivals, Air Canada had to cancel its plan to reward Expo's 1,000,000th visitor with a trip anywhere in the world, decided to wait until the computer-totalizer was working well enough to pick out a 2,000,000th person...
Activist Opener. Back home in Alabama, Trial Lawyer Johnson discovered the sometime profit of being a Southern Republican. Though Stevenson swept Alabama in 1952, Johnson served as one of Eisenhower's nine state campaign managers. His reward: appointment, at 34, as U.S. attorney for northern Alabama. His two-year record: impressive. In one of the few such cases since Reconstruction, for example, Johnson won a peonage conviction against two Alabama planters who had paid Mississippi jailers to bind Negro prisoners over to them. In 1955 fate intervened with the death of the U.S. judge for Alabama's Middle...
...course, hard on Harvard players, coaches, and fans to lose two athletes of such immense talent. But if the Ivy Leaguer in the Tigers' second infield in this weekend's practice sessions is any indication of things to come, the long-range reward for Harvard fans could be very great indeed...
...police, firemen, FBI agents and an Army demolition team from Fort Rucker. As usual, there were few clues, no suspects. But the bombing appalled even Governor Lurleen Wallace, an archfoe of Johnson's school decision. Denouncing "the fiendish demons who committed this act," Lurleen announced a $5,400 reward for information. If the bombing was "in any way related" to the school order, declared Lurleen, "this is not the American way or the Alabama way to protest such decisions...