Word: owing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that these two eminent fighting cocks have given each other their lumps in public, how about a reconciliation, followed by a joint and sustained effort to unify their party? Neither Eisenhower nor McCarthy may believe this in the heat of the present moment, but we think they both owe at least that much to the G.O.P. and to their country...
...Smoking," the scientist said, "is the leading important feature that the vast majority of the lung cancer patients have in common. We owe it to ourselves," he continued, "to ponder carefully whether as individuals we wish to smoke cigarettes and run the risk of cancer...
...next time my husband beat me ... I did not attempt to fight back, but merely said, 'O.K. I owe you one and I'll pay you back.' Three nights later, when he was sleeping quietly, I got up and beat him severely about the head and neck with the leg of a broken chair. Of course, I immediately received another beating, but all I did was repeat, 'I still owe...
...August 23 issue of TIME rescued me from the hands of the Communist police of the Russian zone of Germany. I feel, now that I am once again on free ground, that I owe it to you to let you know how your publication was responsible for this rather extraordinary feat. Rescue often comes to the "children of light" from very unexpected sources, and I must say TIME was a rather unlikely candidate for the job at the time...
Although this does not exhaust the film's attention to insignificance, it does hit many of the high points. Of course, Cyd Charisse's brogue is pretty, and it's enlightening to see that dress fashions in 1723 Scotland owe something to Christian Dior...