Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taylor has the colossal gall to decry democracy, and to compare us to the recreants who planned the mass murder at Dachau. To this I can only say that thousands of us owe our lives to the "brutes" who devised this bomb, and the "monsters" who had the courage to use it. (RDM2/c) R. E. CODY % Fleet Post Office San Francisco...
...richest gifts to the U.S., says Harvard's Philosopher-Emeritus William Ernest Hocking, are spiritual. Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted and understood and appreciated...
...intend to resume my studies as soon as my personal liberty is restored. . . . During the trial my still was brought into court as evidence. The judge, the jury and the spectators were unanimous in the opinion that it was the finest piece of coppersmithing ever seen in Tennessee. I owe it all to the I.C.S. sheet-metal course...
Said Minister Bidault: "We cannot tolerate that anyone should try to dispossess France of her sovereignty of certain territories. . . . There are peoples to whom we owe an outstanding debt . . . whom we must lead toward a better future. The French nation, the nations that accompany us on our road and are faithful to us: that is the real trusteeship...
...Roosevelt: "This is essential to the substantial increase in our foreign trade which is necessary for full employment and improved standards of living. It means more exports and it also means more imports." Elaborating the idea of reciprocal trade, Franklin Roosevelt argued that other countries cannot pay what they owe the U.S. unless the U.S. is willing to take that payment in imports. And it cannot take the imports if tariffs are high...