Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case for the Government, got the President's personal thanks, but that was as far as it went. Unfortunately, Murphy had not bothered to cultivate the men who dispense New York's Democratic plums-or even to join a political club. Since there was little chance for reward or advancement (i.e., the judgeship Murphy was hoping for), there was little point in staying on the Government payroll for a piddling $9,400 a year. After Hiss's appeal has been completed, therefore, Murphy will resign...
...afflicted it during World War II. Nobody was demanding that men chop the cuffs off their pants, or that women make bandages and adopt a look of austerity. Advertisements for piecrust mix and plumbing plungers made no pretense at all that the product was being gotten out as a reward to "the boys" overseas. There had been no revival of such phrases as "The home front" and "Don't you know there...
Balance on the Turns. For the drivers, the thrills and spills are chiefly just bitter-hard work, with little reward except for a handful of the most highly skilled. In Chicago's Hurricane Auto Racing Association, a stable of professional drivers, the regulars pour it on five nights a week (Rockford, Milwaukee, Waukegan, Chicago), for a guarantee of $35 a night regardless of where they finish...
...This is the engineer soldier at his best," said Douglas MacArthur in 1945 when he pinned a Distinguished Service Cross on Major General Leif John Sverdrup, his acting Chief Engineer for the Pacific Theater. The D.S.C. was lean Jack Sverdrup's reward for leading the reconnaissance and capture of Lingayen airfield on Luzon. But he had long since won greater fame for his methodically frenzied hacking of airstrips, almost overnight, out of South Pacific jungles. At war's end Jack Sverdrup went back to his St. Louis engineering firm of Sverdrup & Parcel...
...Laurier House, a homely old mansion willed to him by the widow of his predecessor. In the attic study hung a lighted picture of his mother, the only woman in King's life. On a nearby wall was a framed copy of a public notice offering ?1,000 reward for the capture of William Lyon Mackenzie, his grandfather and namesake, who led a rebellion for responsible government in Canada...