Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Base, Road Racer Bill Spear, in a 4.5-liter Ferrari, won the President's Cup race at a roaring 81.85-m.p.h. average. Some 60,-ooo turned out for the biggest series of sports-car races (178 entries) ever held in the U.S. Winner Spear's reward: a two-foot silver bowl, presented to him in person by President Eisenhower. ¶In St. Louis, the Cardinals' Rightfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial had himself quite a day at the plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping home runs, a major-league...
...forever-his own chances of succeeding to the Socialist leadership." "It is the future existence of the party itself which is at stake," said the Times in alarm. If Bevan could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia, "the leadership would be his reward,'' noted the Manchester Guardian, "but there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000): "Again he has shown that the greatest blunder the party could make would be to elect...
Warmth from a Light Blub. Meanwhile, as he "lived like an animal wallowing around in dirt and filth," the Chinese subjected him to endlessly repeated accusations and endless hints that it would be easy to kill him. Bit by bit he wrote what the Chinese wanted (as one reward they allowed him to warm his hands on a light bulb). "The hardest thing I have to explain," he said, "is how a man can sit down and write something he knows is false and yet to sense it, to feel it, to make it seem real...
...taking a leisurely break between rising and lunch time, this corner has been essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars and trucks that patrol Massachusetts Avenue was enough to test the mettle of any normally sedentary thinker. With black coffee and pleasant sophistry his reward, the scholar risked the crossing each day, sharpening his senses and developing trim reflexes. The Jungle ruled in Mass. Ave., and the Harvard man either emerged its master or, found unfit, was sent reeling, to eke out his $30 stay at Stillman...
Nordhoff has not, since 1950, publicly reported Volkswagen earnings; but they soared from an estimated $2,500,000 before taxes in 1948 to $7,500,000 in 1949, and $12,500,000 in 1953 (on sales of $100 million). Volkswagen, however, has no stockholders to reap a reward: the company's ownership (it is now in government custody) is a mystery still to be solved by the courts...