Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have as much brains as the infantry. Horses and the higher style of living required of a cavalry cadet would cost Lord Randolph an extra ?200 a year. Winston, high-spirited as always, had the nerve to express pleasure at his feat in getting into Sandhurst at all. His reward was a letter from his imperious papa which must rank as one of the nastiest ever written by a father to a son. After scolding Winston for his "slovenly happy-go-lucky harum-scarum style of work for which you have always been distinguished at your different schools," Lord Randolph...
Friendly Lizards. To reward its revolutionaries, AID tries to better an applicant's stateside salary and then adds a 25% Viet Nam bonus; group-health, life-insurance and leave benefits are the same as for other foreign-service workers, and allowances are paid for families that must be left at home. Volunteers are warned that a job in the boondocks could be dangerous - nine AID men have been killed by the Viet Cong, eleven wounded and two kidnaped. Even so, commented one recruiter, "It's probably safer working there than crossing Times Square...
...rule, Fish volunteers shun personal publicity, finding enough reward in help done rather than praise received. Rector Howell believes that the organization has caught on so well because "we need specific outlets to help us show the substance of faith in our lives." Fish, he says, has not only given help to the needy, but has also given the volunteers themselves a new dimension of what Christianity means and a chance to live their faith...
...sort of shrug and folded its wings. Legs rigid, it plummeted downward, driving its talons deep into the hare's skull, killing the animal instantly. Then, poised over its prey, 3-ft. wings spread in triumph, it shrieked impatiently for its master to hurry along with its reward: a tidbit of fresh meat...
Five years later, the Times sent Krock back to Washington to run its bureau and begin his column, "In the Nation." There, week after week, he devoted himself to what he calls the real reward of journalism-"perceiving in a news event the hidden factors that are really the important roots of the action." In his search for those hidden factors, he made intensive use of his telephone and his legs. He was always, he said, "more concerned with the reportorial quality of what he wrote than with any punditry." He scorned the official handout, preferring to find...