Word: owed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their struggle for existence and their hope that the eldest son. David Lee (Kevin-Hooks), will one day escape the sharecropper's life. Much like my mother's family, the Morgans struggle endlessly to do the white man's work, because as Rebecca (Ciely Tyson), the mother, says. "We owe him all that money...
...debt we owe the people of Indochina is so enormous that such actions as attending demonstrations are only a beginning. But since the peace that is made in the next weeks will be stamped on Indochina. Perhaps for generations, we must call on our Congress to insist upon a peace settlement that does not set a precedent for terror bombing as a legitimate and successful negotiating lactic: and we call upon the nations of the world--who today exert more influence on the United States government than its own citizens--to deny victory to the new Germans...
...Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...
...piling up in Switzerland, where he cannot get at them. As word of his plight spread, some unusual Samaritans offered to help. First came Hollywood Writer Albert Maltz, once jailed and blacklisted for refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Communist. Maltz said that the Soviets owe him some $34,000 in royalties on his writing (The Cross and the Arrow), and should pay it all to Solzhenitsyn, "an incredible human being, one of the moral giants." Then came two Pulitzer-prizewinning novelists, Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) and Bernard Maiamud (The Fixer...
About 80% of the village's Christians are Eastern Rite (Melchite) Catholics who owe allegiance to Rome; the remaining 20% are Greek Orthodox and are loyal to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. There are also about 80 Moslems in the village, all members of the Diab family. For years the Diabs sought to build a mosque. But every time they began construction, the Christians would destroy by night what the Diabs had built by day. The Diabs finally got official protection to build their mosque in 1958. "They put it right beside the police station," reports one young resident...