Word: owed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owe it to the 11,000 students who did not sign a petition that we protect them," George M. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts. replied. "We must maintain the functions of teaching and research in a free society, not a left-dictatorial society...
Cleopatra's last scenes owe a great deal to the death of Dido. Vergil showed how both love and duty are a calling on the soul. Aeneas provides the greatest example of self-mastery through moderation. He is great for leaving Dido; Antony for joining Cleopatra. In Vergil love is the divine demoniacal; in Shakespeare what is best is demonic and divine. For Cleopatra, as for Dido, rule and passionate love prove irreconcilable, as Charmian's farewell line "Your crown's awry" beautifully explains. Death for both women brings no diminution of majesty but its highest pitch. Cleopatra, like Dido...
...look at it another way: this country is relying on fewer than 100,000 men to produce the raw resource for the steel and electric power without which the United States wouldn't function for five minutes. When you look at it that way, the rest of us owe a lot to the coal miner. Pretty important man. Couldn't get along without...
Apart from the active support of the American Military Mission in Greece, the Pentagon's representative, the Colonels receive help from, and probably owe their jobs to, the CIA. Before the coup, Colonel Papadopoulos was chief liaison between the CIA and its Greek counterpart, the KYP. The latter is directly financed and controlled by the CIA. The head of the CIA in Greece, James M. Potts, refers to Papadopoulos as his "son." Thomas Pappas, a Boston Greek-American businessman who owns Esso-Pappas, the leading oil company in Greece, has publicly declared how proud he is to work...
...owe the American people more than political indignation and blind zeal. We owe them thought, competence and knowledge. If we permit the destruction of the university, we would betray our own direct responsibility...