Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinking out their personal or national philosophy. Meanwhile, our fellow citizens in the world community are very articulate, explicit, and definite in their plan of action. We don't like the way they have achieved that definiteness by indoctrination from the top of a totalitarian government, but we owe it to our fellow citizens and to our convictions to use our free method of education to accomplish a result which can match the well-though-dictatorially-formulated opposition. If we really have the truth, we ought to be able to express...
Said Bilbo of the $3,000 he had borrowed from Abe Shushan to make a divorce settlement with his wife: "I still owe $2,250 on this alimony nightmare." The swmiming-pool bill and the Morrissey loan, he vowed he would...
...Malaya, the long-range prospect is even more discouraging. A self-governing Malaya assumes that the people who live there think of Malaya as a nation to which they owe allegiance. At present the Malays (41% of the population) obey their scattered sultans; the Indians (13%) give allegiance to their religious communities, and the Chinese (43%) look to China...
...opposition to the resolution, led by Irving Telling 4G, declared that "veterans should avoid a grasshopper policy. The world does not owe us a living and we must not be completely dependent upon the government," he concluded. Tony Garam, speaking for the resolution claimed, "Congress meant the law to give subsistence, but it is no longer subsistence because of the greatly increased cost of living...
...other hand, the words of General Bradley deserve the greatest recognition. "As Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, I owe a solemn duty to 17,000.000 veterans who fought this country's wars. And yet, I am positive that the huge majority of these veterans will support me in my conviction that I owe an even more compelling duty to all Americans and to the nation in which they live." . . . This attitude might well serve as a basis of thought for leaders all over the world...