Word: owed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owe it all to my manager." Rausch says modestly. His manager. William Kress, 21, of Springfield. III...has starved Rausch for three days...
...weary of the war; each year 15,000 well-educated Egyptians emigrate, many to Canada, despite blocked funds and other difficulties. The lower classes, who account for much of the city's population of 5,000,000, still believe whatever the government radio tells them; the bureaucrats who owe their jobs to the regime at least pretend to do so. But even the fellahin and timid clerks must eventually begin to wonder at the insouciance with which Israeli pilots have begun to bomb around their capital...
...back now and discovered that Buck was a senile old relative in the sci-fi family-the kind of old uncle that falls asleep over his food and embarrasses evervone when he talks to himself in the movies-even so, we would have to respect him. After all, we owe...
...added that he has tried as Master to get across the idea that "Harvard has done something for its students they can never get over. They owe something to this place...
...place of this relatively benign view of America, the revisionists have portrayed a land of teeming passions and deepseated, almost irreconcilable disagreements. Some revisionists accept the class-warfare theories of Karl Marx; most of them owe a considerable debt to Progressive Historian Charles Beard, who interpreted the American past as an economic struggle between haves and havenots. Since most revisionists took part in the civil rights or antiwar movements of the past decade, they make an easy transition to a study of previous periods of intense struggle: the Revolution, the Civil War, the Populist revolt, the efforts of labor...