Word: owed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everyone knows that Russia openly boasts of its designs on the summer Olympics, and that the Soviets' over-whelming winter victory produced a lot of handwringing and moaning here in Washington," Macdonald said yesterday. "We owe it to every athlete on our team, and to ourselves, to supply the funds for necessary training expenses by our Olympic athletes from the date of their selection until they leave for the games in November...
Macdonald said that the publicly-appropriated Olympic fund would not be sufficient to cover all the team's expenses. "It is, therefore, the government's responsibility, for we owe it to our athletes and to ourselves to get the best possible results in Australia," he said...
Leighton observed that he, himself, had worked 20 years for the University. "I'd just as soon they didn't give me a party. If I could collect my pension tomorrow, I'd take off. The University doesn't owe anybody anything. When I have to quit, I'll thank them for letting me work for them," he said...
...dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni themselves feel that they owe much to the magazine is proven by their continued allegiance to it throughout the years, an allegiance recently manifested in the Advocate's announcement of plans for a new building to be financed almost entirely through alumni...
...hopes to hold the consumer-credit rise to $3 billion for a total of $39 billion. The enormous debt consumers already owe will make the FRB's job easier; repaying 1955's loans will soak up enough money to make people think twice before taking on new debts...