Word: owed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reilly: You owe me 25 dollars...
...Reilly: You owe me 25 dollars...
...Mohammed and his birthplace owe a lot to each other. In his day - the 7th Century A.D. - Mecca was the main transfer point between southern Arabia and Syria. Mohammed, an or phan member of a major Meccan clan, entered the city's chief industry, cross-desert transport, and did well. He married his boss, Khadija, a widow some years older than he. He was devoted to her as long as she lived, and she was his first convert when he began going out into the desert and coming back with strange ideas about religion. The caravans to Mecca brought...
...Reverting to his own dismissal from command, MacArthur repeated that he did not doubt the President's "legal" right to fire him, yet with obvious feeling he rumbled out his deep concern over "a new and heretofore unknown and dangerous concept that the members of our armed forces owe primary allegiance and loyalty to those who temporarily exercise the authority of the executive branch, rather than to the country and its Constitution. No proposition could be more dangerous . . ." What the armed forces would be like if each man were to be his own judge of the actions...
...where she picked up her mail from home, parked extra luggage and got knowing advice about where & how to travel. Her experiences ranged all the way from a climb up Mont Chevalier to a glimpse of the royal family in London. "It was," she says, "worth every cent I owe...