Word: rewardable
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...what they did, and in each case the method of the search is itself part of the process of understanding. Both strive for a precise, detailed reconstruction of the circumstances surrounding an action: both operate on the assumption that the patience of the investigator will bring its appropriate reward...both distrust the ready explanation that springs first to mind. The connection between the two seems obvious, but it has only recently been explicitly recognized...
...Kashmiri government offered a princely reward-$21,000 outright plus a $105 lifetime annual pension-to anyone who "traces or helps in tracing" the relic. From New Delhi came two senior Indian police officials to help authorities in Srinagar, which is in the Indian-held half of disputed Kashmir. In Pakistan, India's Prime Minister Nehru was blamed as "the real thief," though the press also hinted that the "satanic" plot might have been "conceived in the so-called intellectual cells in a faraway Western capital," meaning Washington. Indians were equally sure that the affair was a Pakistani scheme...
...Brutal Bon Vivant. The next assassin did better. Jacques Mornard was one of those dedicated Stalinists who were willing to devote a lifetime to one shabby crime (he was released from a Mexican prison in 1960 and returned to Russia for his reward). Mornard began his well-laid plot by courting a homely girl from New York who served as a courier for Trotsky. He played the part of a bon vivant, showed no interest in politics and got the bemused girl to marry him. The first few times his wife visited Trotsky, Mornard tactfully waited outside. After several months...
Everyone Bites. The order was founded by Napoleon in 1802 to reward those who "by their knowledge, their virtue, their talent" upheld the glory of the Republic, in which all titles and honors had been abolished. "People call them baubles," said Napoleon of the awards. "Very well, it is with baubles that you lead men. There must be distinction." But the trouble was that the Legion of Honor soon lost its distinctiveness. Miners and postmen, shopkeepers, policemen, and even the official Elysée Palace silver polisher were garlanded along with poets, generals, industrialists and diplomats...
Next summer he will be back at Ain-Mugharah again. "There is something there," he says, "not just things to find, but the threads of history to tie up. That is the great reward of my kind of exploring." Danger there may be, but to the scientist it is no more than a calculated risk. "What the explorer is after," says Explorer Glueck modestly, "is more important than his life...