Word: underpaid
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...were paid five times as much as a tommy. There was also the legend of Yankee sexual rapacity and capacity. "They're overfed, overpaid, oversexed and over here," ran the familiar litany - to which the Yanks had a less quoted riposte about the British: "They're underfed, underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower...
...fourth season I asked for $43,000 and General Manager Ed Barrow told me, 'Young man, do you realize Lou Gehrig, a 16-year man, is playing for only $44,000?' I said, 'Mr. Barrow, there is only one answer to that-Mr. Gehrig is terribly underpaid.' And then there was the season I hit in 56 straight games [1941]. When I came in to talk contract, I was offered...
...Good Man, Charlie Brown. Poor put-upon Charlie Brown, along with his high-flying dog, underpaid psychiatrist and blanket-carrying buddy, makes his appearance in a fast-paced, well-acted production at Winthrop House. In the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, with performances Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that function. One reason: low salaries have forced many to moonlight in second jobs, and they sympathize with underpaid civilians...
...many sparks as a doused campfire; an astronaut's confession that his wife and he "didn't really get along before I flew to the moon"; Brenda Vaccaro's struggle as a magazine editor who cannot write, bragging that "we have a whole staff of underpaid shmucks to take care of that...