Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combat the new low mountain morality, ski areas are fighting back. Bogus Basin, Idaho, now hires off-duty deputy sheriffs to patrol the piste in "plain clothes," passes out notices to advertise the fact. Squaw Valley has put up posters offering $100 reward to those who can catch a thief. And resorts as chic and cher as Vail, Colo., have been forced to install racks that lock skis in place...
...Reward for Services. The mind and the method functioned faultlessly in Palestine. Meinertzhagen cunningly contrived a leak of false information that led the Turks to shift troops from Beersheba for the defense of Gaza. Where upon Allenby easily captured Beersheba, and with it a vast system of wells containing the water he required for a desert war. A similar but more elaborate ruse, involving 15,000 dummy horses and a secret concentration of 35,000 troops and 385 siege guns, set up what was probably the greatest Allied victory of World War I. The siege guns tore...
...reward for his services, Allenby was buried in Westminster Abbey. Yet nowadays, says Author Gardner, the staff of the abbey often cannot recall the site of his grave, which is "customarily half hidden under a row of chairs...
Hanoi's rebuff to the President's peace offensive and the tactical failure of the 37-day bombing pause have apparently led the Administration to intensify its determination not "to reward the aggressors." The first point of Tuesday's Declaration of Honolulu states: "We must defeat the Viet Cong and those illegally fighting with them on our soil." On Monday, President Johnson said that "strength is the only language that the Communists understand," and that "it is vitally important to every American family that we stop the Communists in South Vietnam...
...declared in an opening statement that "a central issue in the dispute between the two leading Communist powers today is to what extent it is effective-and prudent-to use force to promote the spread of Communism. If the bellicose doctrines of the Asian Communists should reap a substantial reward, the outlook for peace in this world would be grim indeed...