Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north of Brazil which belong to the French and the British. By the way, the third parcel of land belongs to the Dutch. There are three different countries located on the coast. One belongs to the British, one to the Dutch and one to the French. All of them owe money to the United States and we might respectfully request of them that they let us have such coastal areas as we may want for our protection and for the protection of our brothers in the southern portion of this hemisphere...
Officially We Know Nothing. Another Balkan monarch, Bulgaria's seven-year-old King Simeon II, may also owe his tottery throne to the Soviet Union. Said the same official: "Moscow should have informed us of an understanding with Bulgaria. It did not. So, officially, we do not know anything about it. But several indications have come to us, mainly from Ankara, pointing to the probability of the existence of a Soviet-Bulgarian understanding...
Satisfied that there was some cheating, the Mayor loosed his first attack against three clubs: tiny La Vie Parisienne (which seats 75 people, calls itself "the most intimate room in the city"), alleged to owe $13,693 in back city taxes; big, garish Copacabana (which The New Yorker recently described as "life in a boiler factory") allegedly owing $37,370; and the Stork Club, top playground of all, allegedly owing...
...social committee has just about completed plans for that Beer Bust that we owe the Seniors. The date should he announced this week. There will be an assessment of a certain amount upon each Junior. So now is the time for all good Juniors to come to the aid of their party and see that Seniors drink plenty of water just before the fiesta...
...Invasion story to bed at 9 o'clock that night-and I think we owe our editors some sort of tribute for the job they did. I reread their stories Friday- and even at that time, 65 hours after their last correction was made, every sentence in their stories still "stood up"-and they gave me as good a grasp of what was happening as all the thousands of other words I read that day written on the basis of much later news...