Word: pegged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure takes several forms. In Japan, as in Korea, it is taxes. A new Japanese tax boost on foreigners (TIME, Aug. 22) will mean that in order to give an American employee $10,000 in take-home pay, a company must peg his salary at $30,000. In Burma laws require that every company have at least 51% Burmese capital and employ at least 75% Burmese nationals. In India and Indonesia, even in the friendly Philippines and cosmopolitan Hong Kong, political and popular pressures are making U.S. firms hire fewer and fewer Americans, more and more Asians...
...fellow prisoners, nor accepted rewards from the Communists. Gallagher admitted that he had signed a Communist peace petition urging U.S. troops to stop the "useless war," that he sometimes took the Communist side in camp discussion groups, that he had strung up a sick fellow prisoner from a peg; his purpose, said Gallagher, was to give the sick patient exercise. "I did not have too many friends," he said. "The men just didn't like me. When I would walk up to another squad, the men would say, 'Shut up, here comes Gallagher.' So I associated with...
...against him), Sergeant Gallagher remained calm. At week's end, the court-martial gave its verdict: guilty of the unpremeditated murder of both the sick men he put out into the snow, of the maltreatment-but not the murder-of the third man he had strung from the peg, guilty of collaborating with the enemy. The sentence was the maximum: confinement at hard labor "for the term of your natural life...
...friends heard blows, body blows they thought, coming from one of the huts. "I saw Gallagher lifting a man off the floor roughly," said Pate. "He carried him to the wall near the corner. As far as I could see, he hung him in some way to a peg in the wall. His feet were about six inches off the floor. Then Gallagher stepped back and laughed. He reached up and snapped the limp head back and said. 'Dammit, that'll learn you. When I say move, you'll know what I mean.' I could...
...Peg. To the big, beaming man from Nicetown, life has become a lot nicer than it used to be in the old "bus-league" days. With his $45,000-a-year Dodger salary, plus $10,000 or so more from his Harlem liquor store and some extra folding money from cigarette endorsements, Campy can afford steak every day instead of bologna...