Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American social character, the authors identified traits of two opposing social characters: those they called "inner-directed" and those deemed "other directed." The inner-directed person, they said, "tends to think of work in terms of non-human objects," wanting money or power or fame or some other tangible reward for performance, and seeing and experiencing things primarily "in terms of technological and intellectual processes." On the other hand, the other-directed person tends to think of work more "in terms of people--people seen as something more than the sum of their workmanlike skills and qualities...
...Reisman, et al., asks more of a career than conventional status and pecuniary requirements, questions ways of going about things and is not content to follow blindly the ways of the past; and is more attuned to social concerns of people than towards personal illusions of grandeur and reward...
Americans get both nosy and fidgety when a genius like Dickinson fails to "go public" like a common stock. The idea of solitary, unapplauded artistic effort as its own reward seems unnerving. Ferreting scholars have turned out reams of speculation about her poetry's springing from unrequited love, particularly for a married minister named Charles Wadsworth. But Emily was a closemouthed New Englander, and she knew how to keep her secrets...
...existence, so fits of wrath like flood and fire are out this time. The devil ponders the problem and answers it with syphilis in the guise of an utterly naive and entrancing woman. The Virgin Mary is belatedly overcome with pity for humanity and ignores her promise to reward this hellish effort despite the demon's defence that his victims will still be capable of redemption. Angry, he rejoins that, like him, they'll also still be capable of free thought...
...centers," where Machel's brand of Marxism is taught with a heavy and sometimes brutal hand. Machel does not coddle even his own supporters. He has warned that many workers might have to toil for as long as three years without pay "for we are without funds to reward your labors." After independence, Frelimo soldiers were given the choice of leaving the service without pay for their years in the guerrilla movement or of staying in the service-also without pay. Says Machel: "We cannot tolerate a bourgeoisie in Mozambique, even a black...