Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Knowde geve Wyllam Pewse Thys Horne to hold by Thy londe. And thus, in the year 1016, did Canute King of the Danes give William Pusey lands and an oxhorn as a symbol of the gift. It was a reward for Pusey's successful behind-the-lines spying against the Saxons. A few years ago, President Pusey visited the old manor which rests between Farington and Oxford...
...City. And then all he did was to sit on someone's front porch and talk politics"). He has never married. He blends a good sense of practical politics with a fairly idealistic view of "good government." Typical Finneganisms: "Good government is good politics." "There should be a reward for those who make a consistent effort for the party. When men have an ability in their jobs and also are a potent political force and are really interested in it, why shouldn't they get a job? More often than not, they give better service than some nonpartisans...
...inclined to nod toward a candidate who can bring him delegates in the convention, e.g., Williams. Stevenson, confident of nomination, is inclined toward a running mate who can perhaps bring him a new bloc of votes in November, e.g., Kennedy. In short, is the vice-presidency to be reward or bait? The 1956 assumption: bait...
Saved from Grubbing. Paul Fromm's reward for his good works is the knowledge that he has saved many a first-rate composer from moneygrubbing. (On the theory that too much money can be as destructive as too little, he has also vowed never to expose his daughter to the temptations of a large inheritance.) He regards as one of his major triumphs the liberation of Composer Benjamin Lees (TIME, May 7) from the stress of film music writing. "If Ben kept it up, he would go to pieces musically," says Fromm. Last week's Tanglewood concert helped...
...Reward of Patience. Other scientists were not convinced that Dr. Hisaw had discovered anything, because relaxin proved incredibly elusive. But at the University of Wisconsin he had a graduate student named Robert Kroc, who was not only convinced but determined to put Dr. Hisaw's discovery to use. In 1944 Kroc went to work in the laboratories of the Maltine Co., now part of New Jersey's Warner-Chilcott Laboratories. After an expenditure of eleven years and an estimated $1,000,000, Kroc found a way to apply the pocket gopher's hormone to the human female...