Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nash always enjoyed that consummate reward, the honor and respect of his friendly rivals in the making of light verse. Poet Morris Bishop offered a tribute in Nash's own language...
...reward for facing the reality of envy and other painful emotions during family therapy, Paul concludes, is "a sense of oneself, a sense of self-esteem and expectant mastery over whatever might be coming down the pike...
...selects his tigers just as carefully. He buys them young, prefers that they be jungle-born; those born in captivity, he says, usually undergo enough rough handling to sour their dispositions. His tigers are taught through food reward, praise and tone of voice: "It's not important what you say to them. It's the tone and the way it's said. I call them by name, speak in a certain voice, and they know what I mean. They each have a different personality...
...whose crime-fighting had given him some knowledge of the underworld. Perhaps he could be of help. In a day or two-sometimes only a few hours-he would return with the suggestion that the citizen appear at a street-corner rendezvous, prepared to pay a reward. No, Wild wanted nothing; to be of service was satisfaction enough. From the thieves he took the greater part of their profit. Those not sufficiently grateful he betrayed to the courts...
...Thief-Taker General's head off with a dull knife. He failed. In 1725, though, Wild was sentenced to be hanged by a corrupt judge (appropriately, on false evidence that he had received a bit of stolen lace). Wild died wealthy, though. During his career the reward for giving evidence rose from ?40 to ? 140, or from $2,000 to $7,000 in modern money, as Author Gerald Howson reckons it. The figures seem inflated; he reports, for instance, that the highest-priced whores of the time cost ?50 a night, by his scale an absurd...