Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solve the squad's guard-rich, forward-poor problem, veteran guards Bill Brady and Steve Davis will get the starting nods at right and left forward respectively while Bill Henry, a guard until shifted up front last week, will return to his first love. Joining Henry in bringing the ball down-court will be Chip Gannon, whose football-knees have rounded into shape sufficiently to make him a regular...
Decrying the prejudiced picture of a "lynch-happy United States populated by the selfish rich" which her fellow-delegates gave to the Youth of the world, Miss Wright laid most of the blame for misrepresentation to the political naivete of the average American and to the State Department's shortsightedness in not sponsoring the delegation...
Certainly, for those who possess the qualifications and aptitudes for the Foreign Service, rich rewards in the way of a satisfying, interesting, and important public service are available. William P. Maddox, Director, Foreign Service Institute...
...When you reach home, you see your family's smiles of greeting, you see their lips move, but the rich experience of hearing the tone and rhythm of their familiar voices is lost. . . . The deaf man . . . misses the snatches of talk normally overheard as we ride the subway ... the tick of a clock . . . vague echoes of people moving in other rooms in the house . . . [the] incidental noises [which] maintain our feeling of being part of a living world. ... He feels as if the world were dead...
...onetime British Columbia cattlehand who rode his first race in 1927, he served apprenticeship on dusty Western tracks and went to Mexico and Cuba to ride the "gyp" circuit in the winter. Unlike most get-rich-quick jockeys, he saved his money after graduating to bigger tracks, lived for a while in a trailer...