Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesser Reward. Unfortunately the Christian Democratic victory did not bring equivalent rewards. Deprived of the electoral bonus which in 1951 gave two-thirds of the seats to the party polling the most votes, the Christian Democrats found themselves in many cities polling more votes but losing seats. In Turin, Genoa, Venice, Pisa and Rome, the Chris tian Democrats lost their legislative majority, and stood in need of allies. to govern. In Florence Mayor Giorgio La Pira, Florence's busy little friend of the poor, polled more votes than any mayor ever had, but ended with only 25 city council...
...built in the Alps but not around the place on Monte Vergine where the Virgin Mary appeared in 1597 to save Visciano from pestilence and hunger? Saint Francis, when he was building his monastery at La Verna, promised: 'He who gives me a stone will have reward for one stone-he who gives me two stones will have two stones' reward-he who gives me three will have fullness of blessing.' If every one of you carries a stone up to the hilltop, we can build a building for abandoned youth there, in a place where...
Athenian authorities ordered a marble plaque put up renaming the Athens street fronting the British embassy "Karaolis-Demetriou Street." A Cretan merchant offered a $300,000 reward for Sir John Harding's head, to match Harding's offer of $30,000 for information leading to the capture of Colonel George Grivas, the British-trained ex-Greek army officer reputed to head EOKA...
...month of suspense while 41-year-old Victor Riesel's sight flickered and died, 48 New York detectives, the FBI and, in rotation, most of the 60-man staff of U.S. Attorney Paul Williams worked steadily to track down his attacker. The reward for his assailant mounted to $45,000, but there were still no results to set against the grim medical bulletin. The bylined Riesel column, which has kept on running in 192 papers, will continue to be written by Riesel's right-hand man, Alton Levy, and his secretary, Miriam Goldfine. But Riesel himself will...
...incident was described by the U.S. Attorney investigating racketeering in New York industry as "a black effort to intimidate witnesses." Governor Harriman decried the attempt to limit "freedom of speech," and Mayor Wagner called it "shame." The Operating Engineers Union agreed and added another thousand dollars to the growing reward for information leading to the arrest of the unknown assailant...