Word: owing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Melvin L. Barnet, a copy editor for the New York Times, recently invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee about past Communist connections. He was immediately fired by the Times, on the ground that newsmen "owe candor to their colleagues and equal candor to the public." The American Civil Liberties Union strongly protested: "Public respect for an observance of constitutional rights are impaired when penalties are meted out because of the exercise of these rights." Who, from a moral as well as a legal standpoint, was right? The Times, or the Civil Liberties Union...
...hard-to-sell, fashion-conscious college and career girl, hired top designers to turn out fetching new trifles, e.g., red "mambo" panties. He also revamped Kayser advertising to emphasize girlish glamour instead of spinstership thrift: "Be Wiser-Buy Kayser," its longtime slogan, became "You Owe It To Your Audience." When Kayser's new-looking 1955 lingerie collection was shown last June, it drew the biggest crowd of department-store buyers in Kayser's history, spurred a 50% spurt in sales...
...easy credit, more and more American families, from newlyweds on up, are turning to the deduction, installment, charge and check system of living. The Federal Reserve Board reports that U.S. families currently owe some $32.5 billion on installment plans, loans and charge accounts, and some estimates put the figure at half again as high. Obviously, since he has assumed the burden of household budgeting, the U.S. businessman has an increasing social responsibility to the community he serves. Instead of merely concerning himself with the sale and delivery of his goods, he must now extend his responsibility far beyond into careful...
...believe that the stars and stripes owe their origin to the coat of arms of the Washington family. May I refer you to a church in Windermere, England? . . . It was built in 1485; John Washington, an ancestor of George's, was active in the church building. In his honor his coat of arms was placed near the top and center of the stained-glass window where it remains to be seen today . . . white stars on blue field and red and white stripes...
...clinics for cerebral palsy and psychiatry, turned Rochester into one of the top medical centers in the nation. Meanwhile, he also found time to study the indispensable role of certain foods, principally liver, in the formation of hemoglobin-a discovery to which thousands of victims of pernicious anemia today owe their lives...