Word: owing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monro placed more emphasis on the idea that it is the University's duty and obligation to expand. "We owe the country no less," he said. He further pointed out that the University has become a great one only by "taking on one big problem after another with enthusiasm and success...
Bailey's attack was directed not just against Freudian theory, but against a wide range of psychiatric practices that owe little or nothing to Freud. Psychosurgery, said Bailey, has built a sorry monument of mutilated frontal lobes. "I am frankly appalled by the [aftereffects] of lobotomy and similar operations-abusive and obscene language, uninhibited sexual drive, obnoxious mannerisms, stealing, suggestibility . . . The great neuro-surgical revolution has proved abortive; it has not emptied our state hospitals." Later, "much the same panegyrics attended the spread of the shock gospel as had attended the spread of lobotomy and -in a previous generation...
...TIME was the first great American magazine to concede to Latin America the importance it deserves," said Alberto Lleras Camargo, former President of Colombia and ex-secretary-general of the Organization of American States. "I have been a constant reader these 15 years. We Latin Americans owe much to TIME, not only to the Latin American edition but to the HEMISPHERE section in the domestic edition, which has done more to acquaint the U.S. with Latin America than any other effort, collective or individual, governmental or private...
Judge Parker went a step farther, declared: "It is a duty I owe the South to commend Nat 'King' Cole for his conduct at, and since, the time of this unfortunate incident." Meanwhile, Negro newspapers were framing no commendations; they blasted Cole roundly for singing to a segregated audience and for declining, on grounds that "I'm an entertainer, not a politician," an invitation to join the N.A.A.C.P. Some Negro nightclubs banned his records from their jukeboxes for the same reasons; in one Harlem establishment they were ceremoniously yanked out and smashed...
Both parties owe it to the United States to name vice presidential candidates who stand for the same policies as the presidential candidates. In these days of grave national responsibility and danger, any party which names a President who stands for one policy and a vice president who stands for another should be decisively rebuked at the polls...