Word: rewardingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says Wills, is "the last liberal." That is, he is liberal in the classical tradition: an individual, schooled to success and selfdiscipline, taking his chances in an impartial marketplace of goods and ideas. Wills sees Nixon as both caricature and culmination of the traditional theory that free competition will reward virtue and produce excellence. He is "Plastic Man," a dogged survivor of political enterprise, Whittier College's second-string lineman bathed in a Calvinist sweat of guilt and zeal, the political reincarnation of Uriah Keep...
...assailants. But in its adversity, KPFT has won new and widespread supporters of its own. The Houston Post ran an editorial condemning the sabotage as "a throwback to barbarism reminiscent of the book burning of Hitler's Germany." The Post has also offered a $1,500 reward for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits...
PRESIDENT Nixon's economists have long promised that the reward for the business slowdown that they engineered in 1969 and early 1970 would be a combination of slower price rises and renewed economic upturn in the second half of this year. They qualified that prediction by adding that any recovery would be modest. The recovery is taking place, and it is indeed modest...
...result of anything but choice. Lindbergh has often been accused of having been singularly unmoved by a postwar visit to a German concentration camp. Not so. "Here was a place," he wrote, "where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?" But he felt a compulsion to link, even to equate, the Nazi horror and attempted genocide with atrocities committed by other nations, especially his own, on the field of battle...
...Vellucci recently proposed that a $1000 reward be offered for information on small drug-pushers in Cambridge, and $10,000 for larger dealers. "The proposal was sensational," he stated, "and it woke everyone...