Word: owed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressuring delegates. On the other hand he couldn't chance letting nature take its course. Through the night, hidden away from the crowds, he worked tirelessly on heads of delegations. "I'm not putting pressure on anyone," he would explain I'm just reminding friends they owe us loyalty...
...attended the University's graduate schools after going to college elsewhere naturally seem to owe their first allegiance to the place where they spent their undergraduate days. The foundation has been surprised by the well-attended meetings all over the country, when they approached men who had previously almost been ignored by the University...
...reminiscence of his jockey-father subtly reveals the old man as a heel. With no subtlety at all, the movie uses the original's French and Italian backgrounds to give a thin illusion of novelty to a spavined horse-racing plot. There are also a few twists that owe less to Hemingway than to successful prizefight films from The Champ to Champion...
...educational institution. Certainly this is not convenient, for injecting an additional thousand students of any sex into Harvard classes is not convenient, although it does solve the problems of Radcliffe, which problems the Corporation has unfortunately made its own. Certainly Harvard as a men's college did not "owe" the use of its facilities to Radcliffe, any more than Smith owes the use of its facilities to Amherst. Most certainly Harvard did not gain by swallowing such an indigestible morsel, for its is difficult to see how joint instruction has raised the standards of the College or improved the maturity...
...hints at something sexual in the governess' feeling for the boy, at something homosexual between the boy and the valet. It has been explained, a little too ingeniously, as a pure hallucination of the governess'. But first, last and always, it is a ghost story; and ghosts owe their audiences only an experience, not an explanation...