Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than willing to try every breakneck, hot-headed trick in the books. In 1957 track stewards grounded Ycaza for 130 days for fouls; in 1958 he was ordered out of the saddle for 110 days. From 1958 came the memorable picture of Ycaza, riding Jewel's Reward in Hialeah's Flamingo Stakes, and coming down the stretch bumping Rival Tim Tarn. Ycaza was suspended for 15 days, Jewel's Reward was disqualified at a cost of $77,800 to Owner Elizabeth Arden Graham, and Tim Tam went on to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness...
...before Dick Reynolds died in 1918. Camel sales jumped from $10 million in 1913 to $188 million in 1918, and the company took over from American as the industry's leader. During World War I, Reynolds made sure that soldiers in the trenches had plenty of Camels, reaped its reward when they came back home with a warm spot for the brand. American countered with its new Lucky Strike?and the battle lines between the two tobacco giants were drawn...
Thus, the U.S. has a potent weapon to reward its friends and punish its enemies, a weapon that more than balances the problematical gains that might be had by abolishing the quotas altogether...
...Angeles County Superior Court on a total of 17 counts. The two counts on which Judge Charles W. Fricke sentenced Chessman to death were not the sexual assaults, but two offenses under the California kidnaping statute, which makes it a capital offense to "seize" anyone "for ransom, reward or to commit extortion or robbery," if the victim suffers "bodily harm." The prosecution argued, and the jury agreed, that by robbing the woman and the girl, then forcing them into his car and sexually assaulting them, Chessman had committed kidnaping for robbery with bodily harm...
...shocked Belgians, it seemed a bitter reward for their promise of freedom next June 30 to the rich Congo colony...