Word: owing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This adds to the urgency of reaching a prompt and honorable end to the conflict. As I said in my nationwide Vietnam address: "I owe it to this nation to bring our men and resources in Vietnam back to America where we need them so badly and to be sure to put first things first in the future...
Princeton and Yale, however, have outstanding records this season. The Tigers sport a 7-1 mark, while the Elis match five victories against a single loss. By coincidence, both teams owe their defeats to single-point decisions against Penn, a team soundly thrashed by the Crimson, 16-47, early in the season...
...adamantly opposed to dealings of any sort with Israel. They wield political power in Jor dan far out of proportion to their numbers, which probably total no more than 5,000 active terrorists. They have the fervent support of Jordan's 700,000 displaced Palestinians, who owe no particular allegiance to the Hashemite Hussein, and the open sympathy of many officers in the Jordanian army...
...poor and brings in low-cost housing for the people who need it most--just so long as it also sends Harvard and MIT packing across the river. Now if we don't do that, our future generations will be the subjects of that Harvard and they will all owe their allegiance to that royal messiah, Nathan M. Pusey...
Since they owe so much to sumo, it is no wonder that the Japanese are wild about the sport-even though it has lost some of its appeal since the good old days of 2,000 years ago when wrestlers fought to the death. Now they only try to throw an opponent down or force him outside a 15-ft. ring. To most foreigners, the spectacle of two near-naked, 300-lb. behemoths locked in a sweaty embrace, tugging mightily at each other's loincloths and grunting like rhinoceri, is about as exciting as a traffic jam. That makes...