Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What he had written was in keeping with the general's style and past performance: "In this hour of momentous import, national and international, temporal and spiritual ... I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to which I might be called by the American people...
...Manhattan's City Center, balletomanes found her new "dance sermon" Billy Sunday (or Giving the Devil His Due) good, saucy fun, if not always good ballet. Ballet Russe's stars Frederic Franklin and Alexandra Danilova not only danced, but spoke-and to everyone's surprise, spoke well...
After dawdling for four weeks, commodity prices turned and headed upward last week. The change in direction was largely due to the deliberate maneuvering of Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, who, especially in an election year, is against falling prices when they strike at the farmer's hoard...
...Clark as well as Cunningham, and cox Al Petite. This leaves--reading from bow to stern--Mike Scully, Dick Emmet, Gale, Frank Strong, and Captain Paul Knaplund. There are gaps at the Two, four, stroke, and cox slots. The latter is not problem, for Jayvee taskmaster Sam King is due for promotion...
This paradox is related to another. Sometimes man boasts: "I am essentially good, and all the evils of human life are due to social and historical causes (capitalism, communism, underprivilege, overprivilege)." But a closer look shows man that these things are consequences, not causes. They would not be there if man had not produced them...