Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, Lulu is pretty tough listening. The singers have few tunes and the orchestra squirms morbidly, almost as if improvising without a director. But the listener who sits through the first half gets his reward. In the calmer second half, the music becomes almost songful, with a kind of lyrical lassitude that might have been shown by a latter-day Wagner. When it is all over, the wildly scattered scenes fall together and make dramatic sense...
...veterans," said Ike in summary, "these resolves require no effort approaching the demands made on you in war. Yet the reward for America and for the free world will be as great as any victory in battle or in any campaign. The world-all the world-will again recognize the United States of America as the spiritual and material realization of the dreams that men have dreamt since the dawn of history...
...street outside his apartment, a voice called, "Roe!" He turned and was hit by three twelve-gauge shotgun slugs. Ted was laid out in a $3,500 casket, and got the biggest Negro funeral in the Midwest since Prizefighter Jack Johnson was sent to his reward under a bee's paradise of floral offerings in 1946. At Roe's funeral, Minister Clarence H. Cobb said: "He was a friend of man, and he had a pure heart...
...Well, I hope to hear from you soon . . . You mention offering no reward to the finder of the bottle. Well, I ask no reward, as it was a very pleasant surprise. Wishing you very good luck, your loving friend...
Boatner expected some trouble from the swaggering, defiant North Korean officers of Compound 66, but after he had taken representatives from the enclosure on a tour of the blood-spattered ruins of Compound 76, the officers marched out in orderly ranks, five abreast. As a reward for obedience and a mark of respect for their rank, Boatner ordered the machine-guns on the watchtowers turned skyward during the transfer. Only one North Korean officer stepped out of ranks; he identified himself as an antiCommunist...