Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college presidents and faculties don't go through with plans to reform college football and athletics in general, they will be destroying something that is marvelous in our life." Football's elder statesman likes to remember the old days at Chicago when "the only reward the boys got was a sweater or a letter...
Grotewohl went over to the Reds, and got his reward: today he is the captive Premier of Communist East Germany. But he took only a tiny splinter of Socialists with him. Schumacher and Ernst Reuter, now the strong-minded Socialist mayor of West Berlin, stood their ground. As much as the allied airlift of 1948-49, that Socialist resistance saved West Berlin for democracy. "No matter what we think of Schumacher now," a U.S. official confessed last week, "we will gladly pay him tribute for having been right about the Russians at a time when we were dead wrong...
...installment plans or cheap 99-year leases. The Archbishop of Catania came down to give the church's blessing to the transfer. The local carabinieri staged a joyful military drill. The viscount, a tall, blue-eyed man of 41, happily signed the necessary papers. "This is a reward for the honest and solid work of those who for years have given their best," he said. "Simply an act of humanity...
Last week Britain's dynamic General Sir Gerald Templer, new High Commissioner for Malaya, upped the price on the heads of 26 of Malaya's Communist guerrilla leaders. But for 31-year-old Chin Peng, believed hiding in the Pahang jungles, Templer offered the highest reward. He would pay, he said, $42,000 for Chin's dead body, or $83,500 for Chin alive. A Singapore wag pointed out that $83,500 was no more than the first prize in the Malayan Chinese Association Lottery. It is also exactly what Chin's operations cost the British...
...Reward, Macao's largest gambling establishment...