Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different reasons: at a recent East Berlin Staatsoper performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelia, fans burst into applause after the Act I Freedom Chorus, stopped the show after Florestan's famous Act II aria, with its line, "I boldly said the truth, and chains are my reward...
...Dover, N.H., Democratic mayor, Murphy switched his own political affiliation, became a Republican in 1953. Three years ago, he helped in Republican Wesley Powell's successful campaign for Governor; his reward was an appointment as Powell's executive assistant. A shy, soft-spoken man who blushes easily, Roman Catholic Murphy was named deputy attorney general last January, became attorney general only last month, when Incumbent Gardner Turner resigned because of illness. Preparing to move on to the Senate, Murphy promised to uphold the conservative doctrine preached there by Styles Bridges. He would also serve as the prot...
...George Parkman, a widely known philanthropist and instructor at the Medical School, disappeared. A man known for his punctuality and methodically businesslike habits, he had been missed he did not come home for lunch. His son-in-law, Robert Gould Shaw, a leading merchant, offered a $3000 reward for his safe return and on Saturday afternoon had placed advertisements in all the papers and had circulated 8,000 handbills...
...headquarters to make a rafter-rattling concert debut. Belting out arias from Rigoletto and Ernani, the Italian-born industrialist brought the momentous evening to a wildly bravoed climax by joining Metropolitan Opera Star Licia Albanese in a duet from Don Giovanni and smothering her with kisses as a reward for "carrying" him. "As Don Juan," appraised the New York Times, "Mr. Buitoni made up for the lack of power in his singing with the ardor necessary for the role...
...became Minister of Heavy Industry, and went to Moscow in 1950 to help negotiate a 30-year treaty of alliance with Joseph Stalin. In 1953 Li signed the pact under which the Soviet Union agreed to supply money and materiel for China's first Five-Year Plan. His reward was promotion to Chairman of the State Planning Commission...