Word: owing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...styles were recognizable, they were of mixed ancestry. The sinuous curves of George Mulhauser's molded plywood chair and matching otto man (Directional Industries, $280) instantly recall Aalto, for example, but the sausage-shaped arms and headrest owe more to Le Corbusier. Hans Eichenberger's tubular framed sofa (Sten-dig, $1,000) is a relatively straightforward, clean-lined exercise in the Miesian idiom. Blond wood was back in Edward Wormley's new line for Dunbar, which features ash in everything from storage carts that open up for dining ($560) to toadstool-shaped tables ($248) and benches...
...shining on Red Chinese Communism, but in the last two decades it was Liu who got down on the ground and cultivated the party apparatus. All seven governors of the provinces of China are Liu's appointees; and hundreds, if not thousands, of lesser party and government officials owe their jobs to Liu, whatever their lip service...
...pictorial-art interpretation of Johnson, Goldwater, Kennedy and Nixon that you want, but you and Boris Chaliapin owe Julia Child an apology. Julia Child is sacred...
...University Food Services owe something to these students who for various reasons are not up by nine but who have paid for a meal. (The argument that the board rate is constructed on the consideration that the average student does not have 21 meals a week in the dining hall is interesting; however, the official estimate of 18 meals a week is still too high.) Extending the regular breakfast until noon would be extremely expensive and would make it impossible for the next meal to be prepared, but the Food Services admits that it could provide rolls, butter, coffee, cereal...
That kind of doubletalk must have mystified his listeners. Then he added: "Until we are again in calmer waters, I believe that I owe it to South Africa to take personal responsibility for the safety of the state...