Word: beholdenness
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...made a career of suppressing. Ex-War Minister Fawzi and most of the others had grown impatient with Sadat's search for a diplomatic solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Moscow was left without one close friend in the top Cairo leadership. Sadat, at the risk of appearing beholden to Washington in the eyes of more militant Arabs, was in effect keeping open the option to pursue Rogers' diplomatic initiative...
...breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove out, picket pin, beholden, boughten), but the prose is straightforward enough for Hemingway...
...Deal, a common-law marriage has existed between the U.S. Government and private business. Like most such arrangements, the affair has been troubled by tensions and uncertainty. Despite four decades of alliance, the two parties are still wary of each other; at the same time they are becoming increasingly beholden to each other. The Government's money tempts business to ask for more and more aid. Politicians are reluctant to refuse to dole it out because business prosperity is needed to keep voters happy. Last year an otherwise lethargic Congress enacted a surprising amount of legislation that subsidized, succored...
Husbands was bankrolled privately so that Cassavetes would be beholden to no executive boards or studio vice presidents. He shot the footage he wanted at his own pace and to his own taste. When he finally sold the distribution rights to Columbia Pictures, the company started suggesting cuts and compromises and refused to give him a definite opening date for the movie. Cassavetes quickly launched a counterassault. He and his co-stars would sneak out in the early hours of the morning and paste Husbands posters all over Manhattan. He organized his own preview screenings, angrily fired off lengthy letters...
...close look at the nominee. Judges are elected in approximately 82% of the nation's state and local courts, but real contests are rare, and active politicking by judges is usually regarded as improper. Moreover, the financial pressures of a national election campaign might well make Justices beholden to special interests...