Word: debt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union, said Stalin, owes a debt of gratitude to its "brothers" in other lands: to the "British workers" who organized "Hands Off Russia" campaigns in 1918, to Comrade Thorez of France and Comrade Togliatti of Italy for restating for all to hear that their peoples would never fight against the Red army. In helping the Soviet Union, said Stalin, these leaders had naturally helped themselves, yet now that Communism is a "mighty force," it is the bounden duty of the Soviet Union to help them...
...Heinz Trökes of Germany owes a great debt to Switzerland's great Paul Klee. Trokes' Between Clouds and Crystals is gay as an awning and deft as a magician's trick, though neither so gay nor so deft as Klee could...
...reaches Parliament, enters the cabinet, finally becomes Lord Nimmo. Nina, through the years, is the target of his suspicions (well founded), the constant victim of his spite. But even when she hates him, which is not often, Chester's needy love for her keeps her in his debt, and makes it impossible for her to leave him. When Chester finally attains the top of the ladder, and she and Jim are middleaged, she gets a divorce and marries Jim at last. But now the shoe is on the other foot: old Nimmo, under the pretext of getting Nina...
...control it. I had immense invention, but I hadn't decided what I meant." Not until ten years later, after six abortive novels, did Gary decide what he meant. By that time even he was getting worried; he had four sons and he was going into debt. "I got rather nervy." And his wife's family "would come to her and say, 'What is that husband of yours doing?' " One thing that kept Gary going was his wife's reply: "This is my man. He knows what he wants...
...word mañana will be erased from our administration," Panama's new President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón told a crowd of 20,000 Panamanians in his inaugural address last week. Taking over a government that is $40 million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with...