Word: owing
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...country in jalopies, often a couple to a car, the man in overalls, the woman in calico. They ring doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies, radicals, fifth columnists and non-patriots bounced Bible-dizzy but patently sincere Jehovah's Witnesses. At Litchfield...
Scalise, out in $40,000 bond, resigned his union presidency, wrote the executive board of the B. S. E. I. U.: "Dear brothers and sisters: . . . Under no circumstances will I permit my misfortune to affect those to whom I owe so much. . . ." Thoughtful Mr. Scalise was 24 hours late. The board had already decided to suspend...
...recent column which contained a discussion of the students whose works were to be shown in the now current Winthrop House exhibit, I said that some of the men had attained a "more than adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their mediums." I owe those men an apology and plead guilty to self-inflicted charges of gross understatement. The oils, water-colors, and drawings which form the collection reveal more genuine talent than has been sent in any recent exhibit of contemporary...
Commenting on the position taken by the Corporation in which freedom of speech was removed from among the issues involved, Dorgan stated, "I'm glad that they have found out that freedom of speech can be license as well. They can't do everything they want to do; they owe certain duties and obligations to the public...
...have just read the finest compliment to the Press I have seen in many a year. I found it in TIME, March 4, where Earl Long is reported to have said, two days after his recent defeat: "I don't owe the newspapers a ------- thing...