Word: beholdenness
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...poet-a true poet!" he cried, when his brother, Orion Clemens, invented a "modest little drilling machine." "To invent. . . shows the presence of the patrician blood of intellect-that 'round & top of sovereignty' which separates its possessor from the common multitude & marks him as one not beholden to the caprices of politics but endowed with greatness in his own right...
Before this scrutiny began, the people had known two main and contradictory facts about Harry Truman: 1) that he was once the beholden creature of Kansas City's behemoth boss, Tom Pendergast, as corrupt a machine politician as the U.S. has seen in this century; 2) that Truman has done an excellent job as chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee...
Everybody knew what "liberty" he meant. Senator Connally and colleagues were on their way to tell rebellious Alben Barkley that he was no longer beholden to President Roosevelt for his Senate leadership; that now he was free to be his own and the Senate...
...Britain had still not recognized formally the new French Committee of National Liberation as trustee for France), but already Frenchmen at home and abroad looked up. Said De Gaulle: "Fight with me and we will establish French sovereignty; fight with me and France will be beholden...
...deep conflict of principle. I hold that no man should ascend to the bench to pass upon the rights, even the lives, of other men when he is obligated to a political boss.... Still worse, it seems to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that and acts as if the law begins and ends with himself." So wrote Governor Edison of New Jersey...