Word: owe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cordell Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...
...only thing they missed was sleep. Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor even managed to get around to Dewey's fashion show where, he reports, "the models wore garters with pink elephants on them . . . Furthermore," he added, "who should turn up in the Maryland delegation but a man I owe $78 for lumber...
...area decided that the time had come to move. Small groups in Saskatchewan and British Columbia joined them. They auctioned off their lands and farm equipment to other Mennonites. They advertised for creditors they might have overlooked, checked with the Income Tax Department on back taxes they might still owe. Then they packed...
...Blaik said he hired me because of my coaching record; what success I've had, I owe to the Jayvees...
...must ascribe to her the marvelous fact," said one of the speakers, Winston Churchill, "that a crippled man, victim of a cruel affliction, was able for more than ten years to ride the storms of peace and war at the summit of the U.S. The debt we owe to President Roosevelt is owed also...