Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall Street. Such sterling services produced their due reward. When the Germans finally attacked their "ally." Stalin named Ulbricht a top member of the National Committee for Free Germany, which organized anti-Hitler propaganda campaigns in German prisoner-of-war camps, broadcast Moscow's message by loudspeaker to the Nazi divisions around Stalingrad. The National Committee was no great success in winning over the enemy. But it did serve as a readymade nucleus for Communist administration when the time came to move into postwar Germany. When Hitler's armies collapsed, one man was the logical choice to carry...
Thompson, crushed that while going out for the evening he had forgotten to turn on his elaborate burglar alarm, took the crudity of the theft to mean that no professional burglar had been at work. Only a fat reward, with no questions to be asked, he decided, might bring back the loot, and he at once offered...
Still, Bourguiba displayed enormous forbearance. In January 1960, when De Gaulle was fighting to survive the Algerian Revolt of the Barricades, Bourguiba graciously called off a scheduled "Bizerte Protest Week." As a reward, Bourguiba was invited to Paris last February, welcomed with pomp, and permitted to confer with De Gaulle. He came away glowing, convinced that the general was finally ready to negotiate withdrawal from Bizerte. Hearing nothing further, he suspected the worst; and the airstrip work confirmed his suspicions. Three weeks ago, Bourguiba sent his chief aide to Paris bearing a personal letter for De Gaulle...
...wondered how the picture poachers expected to dispose of easily recognized works. Reputable dealers and patrons would shun them. There was no insurance company to bargain with, since the city had no funds for $30,000 annual premiums that would have been necessary. The burglars' only hope of reward seemed to be in ransom, and Saint-Tropez has no blood money to spare...
Eventually, of course, even this lonely boy drifts out of memory-but haunted readers are the reward of the artist, not the journeyman...