Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Nehru had earnestly championed China's Red regime, urged a seat for it in the U.N. and offered himself as mediator between East and West. It pained and jolted the pandit that Communist Mao had repaid him in typical Communist coin. In his first reaction to the invasion on Oct. 26, Nehru had expressed "surprise and regret" and recalled Chinese assurances that the Tibetan problem would be settled peaceably...
...battle of the Horseshoe, Chief Junaluska [of the Cherokees] had saved the life of Andrew Jackson by driving his tomahawk into the skull of a Creek warrior who had Jackson at his mercy. When Andrew Jackson became President ... he repaid this debt by ordering the Cherokee removal. So you see that even celluloid cliches have their counterpart in real life...
...Treasurer's Office is paying the building expenses as they come in; the costs of the dormitories, in excess of what alumni have given, are being met by loans to the various faculties -- to be repaid later out of the gifts and in some cases, departmental surpluses...
...Life of Johnson and Tour to the Hebrides. There were also such tidbits as a report to Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Boswell's own love affairs, and a verdict on Dr. Johnson's old friend, Mrs. Thrale (". . . For all her care and attention she was amply repaid by the gratification of her vanity in having so great a man ... to use, as it were, in her possession...
...will was filed; except for $1,000 to a cousin, she had left everything to Memorial, but hospital officials did not expect it would amount to much. Last week, when her safe deposit box was opened, jewelry, stocks, bonds, gold and bank books showed that Margaret Pierce had repaid Memorial's kindness. She had left about $150,000 for research, to help save others from the suffering she had known...