Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, in appealing to the princes and nobles, he wrote: "We owe this revolt to none other on earth than to you . . . who are hardened to the present day and do not cease to rage against the Holy Gospel, and in your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word...
...farmers owe this price-support gift to a law jammed through Congress by the powerful farm bloc during the war. Under the law, the Government must pay farmers 90% of parity for two years following the official end of hostilities. Since neither President Truman nor Congress declared the war officially at an end in 1945, the Government must now keep its promise through 1948, instead of just...
...month, while fitting shelves in an Atlanta lawyer's office, he laid aside his hammer, turned and said to his boss: "Listen, mister. I'm a fugitive from a Georgia chain gang. I have been for nine years. Now I want to do something about it. I owe it to my wife and children...
When this year's Autumn Salon opened in Paris, 30,000 people crowded in the first day. Nowhere else in the world does art mean so much to so many. And no where else do so many artists owe so much to so few. A thousand painters were exhibited in the show; most of them were followers of the three grand old masters of modern art, Matisse (76), Picasso (64) and Braque (63). The exhibition crackled with cubistic beefsteaks, sparkled with brokenly abstract wine bottles, and blazed with serried riots of bright colors, explosively combined...
Last week Harry Truman had some advice for Congressmen, who will have to solve the dilemma. Said the President: "We owe it to those now in the armed forces that they be returned to civilian life with all possible speed. . . . We cannot rely on voluntary recruitment. ... I therefore urge that the Congress continue inductions...