Word: owing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats now being discussed has serious drawbacks as a potential candidate. This, together with the fact that the party is far from united, increases the chance that the Democrats' next nominee will be someone completely unthought of now. Should a dark horse get the nomination, he may owe it to an incomprehensible night on Chappaquiddick Island in the summer...
According to Jones, he was stopped by the unidentified man about 11:30 Wednesday night. "Where is the $25 you owe me?" the man asked. When Jones objected, the man took his wallet and began kicking...
Other students at the Summer School have told Tolleson that Jones did indeed owe the money and had refused to repay...
...captured by bold, brutal structures of raw concrete; or intricate multilevel structures, designed with the help of a computer; or "pop" buildings that seem to revel in the chaotic interplay of roof lines, angles, windows, colors. Yet all the architects who rebel against Gropius' cool, functional logic paradoxically owe to him their method and ethic. He laid, in the hard soil of reason, the strong and deep foundations for them to build...
...commuters mostly fly small prop planes, but they owe their development to the jet age. Larger airlines have left the field clear for them in towns and cities where meager traffic will not support the costly big transports. And in many cases, the small carriers have made themselves essential. Rural Spencer, Iowa, found itself so isolated that town officials invited Minnesota's Fleet Airlines to provide regular service to larger cities and happily agreed to make up any losses...