Word: owed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time in twenty years . . . This . . . will enable me to face the future with confidence and the knowledge that even if I lost my eyesight, I would still have a comfortable living ... I can assure you that within a short time you will receive from me every cent that I owe you ... I am humiliated, disappointed and heartsick, but ... I can do nothing else . . . Please try to see this in the fairest light possible...
...drafting of doctors, and on the statement of Robert Ruark, whom you quote as follows: "To beat a draft and knock off a free medical education is quite a feat ... I wouldn't weep for [this group] if they all got drafted on private's pay. They owe us some interest on the loan...
...plagued him. His death meant the disappearance, wrote Paris Critic Waldemar George, of "the only painter who was capable of giving to French art a sense of ... the human values. Our only consolation is to know that his teaching will not be lost. In the end, the young will owe him much...
...spiritual needs of the prisoners were filled. A Jesuit priest managed to grant absolutions and perform clandestine Mass each day for Roman Catholic prisoners. Lilje and other Protestant pastors wrote meditations and commentaries to be passed around. Among the most heroic were the Jehovah's Wit nesses. Owing to their "absolute love of truth, the Gestapo were glad to use these men in various prisons as informers, for in their love of truth they always went so far that they disregarded all ties of comradeship ... In spite of this, we owe them that respect which we would give...
...critics were less spontaneous: they wrote columns about "influences" they thought they saw in Grandma Moses' 50 oils (which owe their greatest debt to the prints of Currier & Ives). One critic spoke of Renoir and the "early moderns"; a second of Flemish miniatures and Bruegel's landscapes. Anyway, said another, "there's something [in Grandma Moses] for everyone to enjoy, whatever their approach...