Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These men were very persistent but, as far as I could tell, very willfully scorned by the objects of their affection. Or their efforts may have gained them a reward I simply didn't notice. Maybe someday the porter will pull a wife up off the floor and live happily ever after. I don't suppose I'll ever find out, so I'm going to leave their story open and tell about an encounter before I reached Greece...
...latest problem for divorce lawyers is which spouse will get custody of the tennis membership. "Ninety percent of the men who play tennis with women," says Designer Oleg Cassini, who has lately branched out into alluring multicolored outfits for tennis players, "do so with some hope of sexual reward." As a tennis player, Cassini should know better. But these days who will blame him for hustling his own products, or think him entirely wrong? Meanwhile, in California, a lanky 38-year-old tennis pro named Timothy Gallwey is becoming a national personality (with his own TV show and a bestselling...
...good enough to beat someone two years from now. The arguments in the new all-women's leagues are something like 25 times as many as occur in the men's leagues. For many women who don't work, tennis is their only outlet. There is no definite reward system in being a mother. With tennis there is a definite reward system...
...Maine, 260 died. Though the Spanish denied any responsibility, jingoistic U.S. newspapers charged that a Spanish mine had caused the explosion. "Destruction of the Maine was the work of an enemy," charged William Randolph Hearst's newly founded New York Journal as it offered a $50,000 reward for conviction of whoever had done the deed. Scarcely two months later, the U.S. declared war on Spain, and one of its battle cries was "Remember the Maine...
...other investors. He and Smith compiled a national mailing list (there was none for fire fighters) by cashing in on Smith's reputation as a firehouse folk hero. A letter went out to 30,000 fire chiefs asking them to send in the names of their men. The reward, an autographed copy of Engine Co. 82, brought in 133,000 names...