Word: owing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People with the advantages of a university education owe a debt to the community to "stick their necks out" for civil good, Jerome L. Rappaport '45 said yesterday. Rappaport, an early leader in the New Boston committee, gave an informal address at the Tuesday Coffee Hour in Harkness Commons...
...Managers still owe the writers a case of beer from last year's 6 to 0 thriller, but Scribe coach and Boston Traveler correspondent Grantland Weiss expects another victory...
...conference room," said Stevenson, "is the door to peace. Let it never be said that America was reluctant to enter." He urged Western leaders to "think afresh" in terms of a European system of "durable assurances of nonaggression" with Russia. About Red China, he was somewhat more specific: "We owe it to ourselves . . . .at least to find out, if we can, what Communist China's ultimate intentions are." He said, "When we negotiate, we have to have something to negotiate with as well...
...government to let him repaint Buenos Aires' aluminum-drab trolleys and buses. Finally the city let him do one bus in pink, red, green and blue. He has been less successful in his campaign against black coffins, especially for artists, despite a telling argument: "Why should we who owe our very bread to color go to our graves in black boxes?" In his will. Colorist Quinquela has ordered that his own coffin be soft pink inside, with blue top, vermilion ends and green sides...
Turin, Italy's fourth largest city, is the capital of Italian industry. It is also the biggest company town in the world, dominated by a single colossus world-famed for its name: Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino). Almost two-thirds of Turin's 735,000 people owe their livelihood to Fiat; off the assembly lines of its 15 plants roll 90% of Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat...