Word: owing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State Department officials do not owe their bad habits to college experience, however, according to Mrs. Elizabeth D. Whitney of the Boston Committee on Alcoholism. Very few students numbered among the several thousand alcoholics studied by the committee...
...tend to exaggerate the lily-white coverage of Britain by American newspapers when you do not mention Colonel McCormick and other isolationist papers in this country. Even papers which are not anti-British . . . emphasize how expensive those countries are for us rather than the debt we owe them for holding the line in two wars until we were ready to make our own sacrifices for the world's freedom...
...asylum in which to escape from the contagion of the worldly-minded, but as a place of withdrawal from which to obtain a truer view of the world God so loved as to send his Son to save it -a world to whose well-being [we] owe a direct contribution...
Last week, after two months of negotiations with bondholders' protective committees, the Japanese government agreed to make good on its bonds almost at face value. Late this month it will pay in full all coupons which matured before 1943. The Japanese will still owe close to $44 million in past-due interest. This interest will be paid ten years after the original due dates on the coupons. At the news, the Japanese 1930 5½% issue rose to III, and other issues staged similar rises...
...profession, and were calculated . . . to hurt the very cause in which he and all the rest of us are interested." Navyman Pugh backed water, but not much. "If I have offended any one for whom no offense was intended," he said, "then it is to that group [that] . . . I owe an apology . . . My critical remarks . . . were leveled at an element or group in the medical profession who have not served in the armed forces and who persist in contending that their unwillingness to serve is [because] the service is not attractive enough for them...