Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year later he was sent to San Quentin on five convictions for robbery and assault.** After two years in San Quentin, as a reward for good behavior Chessman was transferred to the model "open prison" at Chino, where men are trusted not to escape. Chessman escaped, went back to robbing, explained after his capture that he had run away only because he was bent on carrying out a plot to kill or kidnap Hitler. Sent back to prison, he was released on parole four years later, in December...
Regler sweated out the rest of World War II in Mexico, to receive the usual reward of those who give their non serviam to Communism-ostracism by friends, charges that he was in the pay of Washington, or of the Gestapo. Ironically, he was denied a U.S. visa, while Eisler, the latrine lawgiver, spent years in the U.S. as an unwelcome visitor...
...public life. Pat Nixon's eyes suddenly filled with tears. ''I've given up everything I ever loved," she blurted, and looked out the window until composure returned. Then she continued: "The people who lose out are the children. Any of the glamour or reward in it comes to the grownups. It's the children who really suffer." But such unguarded moments are rare indeed. Pat Nixon's stamina and courage, her drive and control have made her into one of the U.S.'s most remarkable women-not just a showpiece Second Lady...
...desolate Patagonian coast or to suggest its nationality, except that the U.S. and British Ambassadors promptly disclaimed ownership. Sonar can confuse submarines with whales, old wrecks, even underseas prominences. Most of the world still waited for the Argentine navy to produce a real-life submarine. If it does, the reward may be the biggest appropriations...
...C.E.D. would not have the U.S. simply hand over the money, since "this would penalize states now making the greatest effort to support schools and reward states making the least effort." Instead, C.E.D. suggests giving aid to states where personal income falls below a certain national "foundation" (minimum): 80% of a figure arrived at by dividing all U.S. personal income among schoolchildren only ($9,157 in 1957-58). Each state would receive a percentage of its deficit, equivalent to the national ratio of school spending to personal income. Sample: in 1957-58 the ratio was 2.83%, and Mississippi...