Word: beholden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intention of delivering Guinea either to Western or Eastern influence," says Touré, proclaiming his creed to be "Pan-African neutralism." Even if his procedures owe more to Lenin than to Jefferson, those who know him best believe that 1) ambitious Sékou Touré intends to be beholden to no one, 2) his fellow-traveling companions, who made the journey to the U.S. with him, found the U.S. a much better place than it had seemed through Red-colored glasses...
...bill for his victory. Until last week's revolt, the army had served Kassem as a balance against the growing Communist influence in the streets. Now the army could no longer be fully trusted, and Kassem was more than before beholden to the Communists, whether he wanted to be or not. In the streets of Baghdad, Kassem was still plainly the hero of the hour...
Averell Harriman felt just the opposite. Himself a dedicated liberal, Harriman also felt beholden to New York's Liberal Party for the 264,000 votes that it gave him in his 11,000 win in 1954. The Liberal Party's candidate, and Harriman's, was onetime (1950-53) Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, able lawyer and an articulate man on the platform, but untried at the polls...
...seized weapons shed any light on the dozens of unsolved murders in Caxias. Nevertheless, Lott's re-emergence as constable of the realm, playing power politics without a by-your-leave from President Kubitschek, stirred uneasy fears of army dominance. Kubitschek, whose declining popularity makes him ever more beholden to Lott, conferred quickly with his War Minister but was noncommittal on the raid...
...scenes, and in the romantic ones she is light enough to ride the champagne splashes of emotion as if she were going over Niagara in a barrel. Spencer Tracy has one wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William Holden. But the real star of the show is Emmy. What redblooded moviegoing male will be able to resist the seductive lisp with which she murmurs pocketa. and ever so tenderly, queep? Indeed, what husband will not yearn for a female he can shut up, simply...