Word: owing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contempt for democracy), earned his doctorate at the University of Münster. He rejected the Marxist notion of violent class revolution, embraced instead the doctrine of democratic evolution through parliamentary means. ". . . Marxism is no catechism for us," he said. "It is nevertheless the method to which we owe more than any other sociological method in the world." Unlike the ripsnorting old Sozis of the 1920s with their red caps and red scarves, the Schumacher Socialists of today have lost their enthusiasm for all-out nationalization of "all means of production, distribution and exchange" and advocate a more tepid Socialism...
...Episode. Savonarola was in the tradition of the great Medieval ascetics, an anachronistic protest against Renaissance humanism. Discussing the newly revived ancient classics, he wrote: "The only good thing which we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell." No Protestant, he remained to the last rigidly faithful to Roman Catholic doctrine...
...state that I have never received a paycheck for what time I gave to the Air Force, and certainly did not ask to have the commission extended beyond the five-year period. I cannot see why anyone in my position, as many reserves must be, should feel we owe any duty to our country when all around us are men who have never been required to give one day's service to their country. HENRY C. RUPEL ist Lieutenant, Air Force Reserve Lima, Ohio
...take advantage of this historic moment, we shall impose Justicialism* on the world and the coming century will be Justicialist. And men & women will say that they owe their material and spiritual happiness not to Justicialism but to Perón and Evita. This will be our greatest glory...
...wrote in La Naión: "A great voice has been silenced, but its echo will continue to vibrate . . ." The Peronistas soon went to work-as they had on La Prensa-totting up a trumped-up "customs bill" of 17 million pesos that the paper was supposed to owe the government. If La Naión steps out of line, it can be expropriated by the government, which could assess the paper's value at the amount of the bill due, thus take it over without paying a cent. But La Naión has been careful...