Word: owes
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Political parties: 2. Voters: 66%. British have largely governed through four tribal kingdoms, whose peoples still owe allegiance to tribe rather than nation, vote as leaders tell them but are accustomed to democratic debate...
...Cyclades owe their new verdant look to a fleet of water-carrying Dracones -huge, sausage-shaped bags of rubber-covered nylon, which are towed over to the islands daily from the Greek mainland. The Dracone-which gets its name from the Greek word for serpent-was conceived during the 1956 Suez crisis by British Engineer William Rede Hawthorne, 49. Seeking a quick way to build up Western Europe's oil-hauling capacity, Hawthorne began experimenting in a wave tank with sausage skins filled with alcohol. But soon there was a glut of oil tankers-and European refineries...
...interests of fictional reform, Michel Butor, 35, has rather expansively declared that an author should create a new technique for each new subject. Butor's latest technique produced Mobile, an indescribably dull account of 50 U.S. states, presented as weird collections of lists, and typographical eccentricities which owe something to both John Dos Passos and E.E. Cummings. One of his earliest books, Passing Time, was a Robbe-Grilletesque effort to scramble time sequences. The hero keeps a double-entry diary in which accounts of what happened as far back as seven months ago mingle with impressions of the present...
...traditionally a nation of groups. Those who do not accept these facts will never succeed in understanding the uniqueness of American Jewry." Unwilling to accept this claim was Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, who has often declared that Jews, wherever they might be in the world, owe their first allegiance to Israel. American Jews, he predicted, will be swallowed up as the U.S. evolves into an integrated nation in the next ten to 50 years. "The focus of Jewish life throughout the world is Israel," he said. "Take it away and I doubt if anything binds Jewish people...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. This musical marriage of vaudeville and burlesque has been gamily adapted from Plautus; the girls owe their best lines to nature; and Zero Mostel is master of the hilarious revels...