Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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English, like other Departments, offers special hour exams to graduating seniors in honors, ostensibly to reward them for four years of hard work with a final exam-free last Spring in Cambridge...
Halberstam got his sweet reward for being right: the Pulitzer Prize. But the recent State Department "White Paper" on the North's direction of the Vietcong indicates that many officials have not yet learned he was right...
...encourage concierges, waiters, taxi drivers and the like, each tourist will receive a "carnet de cheques-sourire" (checkbook of smiles), with tickets that he can tear out and distribute (along with his tip) as a reward for especially cheerful service. At the end of the season, 50 beaming Frenchmen with the largest number of smiles will win a brand-new car, a free vacation to Tahiti or the West Indies, or another prize. Will it work? One skeptical tourist official sighs, "Parisians are born complainers-they don't even like each other, not to mention tourists." And he shrugs...
...seat on the convention floor is a reward for the party faithful, the precinct delegates, envelope stuffers, and phone callers, and there are always many to be rewarded. Presumably such people predominated at the rubber-stamp conventions of 1956 and 1960 and constituted rather more than a majority of the 1964 convention...
ANOTHER assignment for this week's issue that was received with special enthusiasm was for the Religion story on Islam. Central to the story is the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca's holy places that for a devout Moslem is the ultimate in spiritual reward on this earth. One such devout Moslem is TIME'S veteran Cairo-based stringer Mohamed Wagdi, and for him the job was the opportunity of a lifetime-to make the hajj and report it. For the six weeks after he first made his application to go on last year's pilgrimage...