Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formed in the shape of a funnel. Terraces circle its inner surfaces in a descending series of damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...
...that Wilson also should not be a member. Ayub's reason: Britain is too deeply committed to the U.S. to join a truly "nonaligned" peace initiative. Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman - recipient of British arms and advice in his battle with Indonesia - feared that the team might "reward aggression" in Southeast Asia...
...women! I love the sex," sighs Macheath the Highwayman. "I must have 'em." But they have him, for when Macheath promises marriage to Polly Peachum, Polly's Parents bribe the gentleman robber's other bawds to turn him in for the reward. Mac's other love, Lucy Lockit, frees him, only to have him recaptured. And he would hang, were it not for every opera's prescribed happy ending. Macheath escapes from Tyburn and rejoins Polly in a fullthroated choral finale...
...Chief Deputy Sheriff Doyle Holliday, a white man, who had been helping in the investigation of the Moore murder. No one was hurt, although some of the slugs narrowly missed Holliday and his wife. At week's end, the investigation continued. Governor McKeithen offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to a murder conviction, promised to "demonstrate to the world that Louisianans are law-abiding, Godfearing citizens, and that our state is no haven for cowards and murderers...
...series of paradoxical styles of life. Faced with pressures which would have torn most men apart, Dedijer played his roles like a master historical gambler, shifting with the social context yet holding some basic values constant. The cost of this freedom was, for ten years, disgrace and exile. The reward has been personal vitality and historical peace of mind...