Word: owing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never really deals with it. The fact is that newspapers, like any other commodity, must cater to the whims of the consumer--and the consumers are more interested in sensational stories than in background material. Reston's only response to this logic, in essence. Is that the papers owe an extensive coverage of foreign affairs to their most intelligent readership...
...book was responsible for all the mechanical labor-saving devices of the industrial revolution. Protestantism, the Enlightenment and suburbia all owe their creation to the book and the eye. But in spite of its once-impressive power, the book has been overwhelmed, in recent decades, by the electronic media: the telegraph, the radio, the computer, and especially television...
...friendships and contacts. As a consequence, they can concentrate their talents and their attention at selected pressure points quite readily. A form of guerrilla warfare has been possible with few student casualties but much impact--a strange war where the casualties often lie elsewhere and the impact may owe more to the exaggeration of the enemies than to the aid of the allies. The new style of flamboyant dress and flamboyant speech fits the headlines and the TV screens as no milder performances would...
While filling out his own federal tax return before he turned to the job of supervising the scrutiny of 67 million others, Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon S. Cohen had a happy experience. Sheldon Cohen, tax collector, it turned out, owed Sheldon Cohen, tax payer, a $43 refund. Under the rates introduced last year, Collector Cohen will also owe rebates to many another tax payer this year, and the thought makes Government economists almost rapturous. They figure that all the returned money will help start the U.S. consumer spending again, and thereby get the economy out of its present stall...
...away in disgust with nary a taste. He also notes that the big cats feast on baboons but generally disdain chimpanzees, which are closer relatives of man and presumably give off their version of the manlike odor that these predators find so unattractive. "To this odor," Leakey believes, "we owe our survival. Man is not cat food...