Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balanced Scale. In Cape Town, South Africa, playing hooky from school, 13-year-old Peter Schroder rescued a marooned kitten from a 60-ft. pine tree, got 1) a $1.50 reward from the grateful owner, 2) a medal from the Animal Welfare Society, 3) a sound thrashing from his headmaster, who said: "Peter is a hero, but if he plays truant, he must also take his medicine...
...Archbishop of Canterbury . . . need not be frightened by the doctrine of infallibility in matters of faith, although Sir Thomas More went to the Tower and the block in its 'defense. The primate is a better Christian than his lineage and many of us Catholics. We pray that his reward will be that of Newman and Chesterton. The door they opened was discovered through intellect, grace and prayer...
...township in Gallia County, Ohio, Rio Grande College's Clarence ("Bevo") Francis, a towering (6 ft. 9 in.) athlete who was the highest scorer (1,954 points) in U.S. collegiate basketball last season, got a reward for his sharpshooting: he was elected to the office of constable on 15 write-in votes...
Such a program would be possible in the United States only if material reward were substituted for the sense of moral satisfaction the Briton gets from service to the Crown. British scientists leave the ivory tower because they feel a personal obligation. But in the country, too few top scientists are willing to exchange faculty salaries and fat industrial consultation fees for a chance to buck Washington's frustrating bureaucracy. More money spent to lure top-notch civilians into scientific administration would mean fewer costly errors and a much-strengthened system of national defense...
...well; she runs her father's household and patiently retrieves him from the shacks of native women. As for Chris, she meets and sleeps with him occasionally, never pressing him to offer marriage. For the Helens of this world, Novelist Rooke implies, selflessness can prove its own richest reward...