Word: owe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owe it to the people of the U.S. as a public service to place a copy in the hands of every member of the Administration, as well as each Senator and Congressman, and especially the policymakers of the State Department...
Said Seagrave: "But I hate like sin to keep imposing on you." With a smile, U Kyaw Myint said softly: "As a Burman, I think I owe...
Drifting on a lazy stream of subconsciousness, some modern short-story writers seem to forget that they owe their reader-passengers a destination. Not so Scottish Neil (Behold Thy Daughter) Paterson, a canny navigator with some of Somerset Maugham's gift for piloting a narrative to home port. The China Run, eight stories long, boasts several twist-of-fate tales that are polished and sardonic enough to have been told by the Old Party himself...
...portrait seems to owe less to the Supreme Court's Holmes than to Life with Father's Clarence Day. Understandably, the only real conflict in Holmes's later years, i.e., the clash of legal ideas, hardly lends itself to dramatization. But Lavery skimps even on a primer-level presentation of his subject's life work. Having emptied the character of all but the vaguest sense of purpose, to say nothing of greatness, he fills it largely with a butter-soft stuffing of homely anecdotes...
...said to him, 'As you did against international law and prevaricating the right of nations, you owe me to be killed. I will kill...