Word: owed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, Johnson and his fellow Democrats owe their Senate control to a tough political creditor, Oregon's Wayne Morse. Said Johnson, of Morse's committee assignments: "I don't know what he may want, but whatever he wants, he's going to get it-if I've got it to give." If Johnson does not have it to give, he had better find it-at teast if he wants Morse to stay with the Democrats...
...contradiction to a printed report last year that Ivy Cinema's 1953-54 film series broke even, three undergraduate institutions involved now report that they owe over $500 in back bills...
...about 4%-if costs are kept in line. If not, a big enough jump in construction and operating costs might wipe out profits for the next 25 years. According to the contract estimates, at the end of 25 years the company will own an aging plant and still owe a debt of about $25 million...
...outside the entry and since, as a matter of plain truth, you spent the entire summer rowing stroke for the Buffalo Yacht Club eight, your story will be unhesitatingly accepted. The assembled company will blush for shame for having so heartlessly tantalized you. If some of them happen to owe you money, so much the better...
...aces was Captain Joseph C. McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea: 16 Russian MIGs. McConnell believed in aggressiveness and good eyesight. "Everything," he once said, "I owe to my eyes." Also: "I can walk into a squad room, watch the men playing ping-pong, and pick out the best fighter pilots...