Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final reward for being a Communist, according to the Communists, is that from a tactical point of view it can be advantageous to be the "most radical organization" in a society where a sizeable percentage of the population is rapidly becoming disenchanted with the establishment. "Some people join the Party because they are angry at what the government has or hasn't done, and this is the most radical form of protest they can think of," a student Party member said...
...case, only a grade B actress; after she married Mao, he had all of her films destroyed. But that was years later. First, at 19, she married a young Communist underground organizer, who made something of a Marxist, a nationalist and a feminist of her. As his reward, when he was sent to Shantung, she stayed behind in the Chinese movie capital, divorced him and married an actor...
...paintings to New York. Art dealers there declared the badly cracked canvases to be worthless fakes or copies. But by searching in the New York Public Library, the Ernsts found the clue they needed, a newspaper account of the 1922 theft. The facts jibed. And there was a reward offered by the German authorities...
...reared in New York and Boston, and by his mid-20s a veteran of diplomatic service in World War I Europe, Christian Herter was equipped as few other statesmen to revivify the crumbling Atlantic Alliance. Yet when he succeeded John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State in 1959, his reward was frustration...
...uncle of his country's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who was among the U.N.'s founding fathers at San Francisco in 1945, played a leading role in breaking the East-West deadlock over admission of 16 new members in 1955, and saw his reward when he was elected president of the General Assembly in 1959; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...