Word: indebtedness
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Bucky is indebted to S.I.U. for providing him with both a home base and a springboard, and Fuller's fame has helped repay the debt, Sixteen years ago, there were only 3,013 students on the Carbondale campus: today there are no fewer than 18,201 students and a...
Supported by his indebted friend Metternich, Salomon won the right to sell lottery bonds to the public in order to build the Austrian Empire's first important railway. Brother Jakob, who had a lease on both the Bourbons and Napoleon III, laid down France's first railways (on...
In both Houses of Congress the administration must count on the votes of Republicans to supply a majority for the rights bill. Even for his usual, tenuous 8-to-7 majority on the House Rules Committee, Mr. Kennedy is indebted to two liberal Southerners, who can be expected to oppose...
Hemingway took him to the boxing matches; Duchamp beat him at chess. Brancusi entertained him by playing the violin, Cocteau by a drum recital, Gertrude Stein by letting Alice B. Toklas cook him lunch. And this was fit tribute to the wiry young expatriate American who not only made artful...
One of the most perishable commodities in the Arab world seems to be gratitude. When Algeria won independence from France after seven years of bloody war, its people were deeply indebted to neighboring Tunisia, whose President Habib Bourguiba, 59, had given shelter to 200,000 Algerian refugees and provided a...