Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in 1960. It had taken off on a "routine mission" from Formosa's Taoyuan airbase on the day it vanished, but the Nationalists revealed neither the plane's flight plan nor the pilot's identity. Peking, which last July had offered a reward of 8,000 ounces of gold (value $280,000) to any Nationalist pilot who would defect with his U-2 intact, boasted that this one had been "shot down" by an air force unit, but supplied no glorious details of the feat...
...Seal Harbor, Me., summer home at a penny a weed. He also received 25¢ a week allowance, which he was obliged to keep track of in an account book that John D. Jr. checked over weekly. (Inaccuracy brought a nickel fine, exceptional accuracy or neatness a nickel reward.) "Father's strict rule," says David, "was that we should save 10% of our money and give away...
...Episcopal Bishop of Utah, a slender, outgoing cleric who became a zealous, if sometimes confused, campaigner for world peace after his retirement in 1946, frequently lending his name to Communist-front groups, but turning down a $25,000 Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 with a cool rebuke: "The only reward I want in working for peace is peace"; in Salt Lake City...
...four Xis pilots -White. Walker, North American's Scott Crossfield and Navy Commander Forrest Petersen-journeyed to Washington, where President Kennedy gave them the Robert J. Collier Trophy, presented annually since 1911 for outstanding achievement in flight. But for White and his fellow X-15 pilots, the greatest reward for their work is the satisfaction of probing the mysteries inside the sky. In last week's flight Bob White found a new mystery for scientists to puzzle over: through the X-15's thick left quartz window, he saw a strange sight. "There are things out there...
...thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly...