Receive
Receive verb - To offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to.
Work for
Work for verb - To be a servant for.
Both terms in one sentence
- That wouldn't work for a radio show, so the 1936 Lux adaptation includes some original dialogue in which Edward and Edith receive a telegram addressed to them aboard the Titanic.
Source: Radio / Lux Radio Theatre -
In Mary Andrew's "Fireborn Chronicles" the criminal elements of the universe are sent to a hive planet where they are addicted to a wonderful drug that can only be earned by working, but which the workers are completely content to work for in order to receive.
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