Word: owe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will get his medal-and $1,000-in May): "I am unfamiliar with [present magazines]. I haven't read one in ten years...
...every night of our lives is spent upon the books as several instructors noticed one morning last week. A good part of the platoon had a taste of beer and spaghetti (with meat balls) at a little party for which we owe thanks to the Lieutenant who obligingly forgot, for the night, our performances at past inspections. We doubt whether the Navy can show us a man who can hold a candle to "Turk" as far as "chug-a-lugging" is concerned...
...Deal, including President Roosevelt, is scared to death of the movement in this country for you. ... I am certain that unless this New Deal can be stopped this time our American way of life is forever doomed. You owe it to civilization and the children yet unborn to accept the nomination. . . . You will be our next President...
...coroner read a note by this mistress of English prose: "I have the feeling that I shall go mad and cannot go on any longer in these terrible times. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer. I owe all my happiness in life to you ... I cannot go on and spoil your life...
...Hero Wuertele plumps for servicemen's issues ("If they draft soldiers, why not draft everyone?"). He covers his lack of political and business experience by an engaging candor: "Lots of people ask me questions about problems I don't know anything about. . . . I don't owe anybody anything, so when I figure out what a man ought to do, I can go ahead and do it." To offset the war heroics, Gillespie's backers are trying out the slogan of World War I's nurse Edith Cavell: "Patriotism is not enough...