Word: owing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owe you nothing, I reply...
...owe me the thoughts...
...child of the House of Commons, its servant," said Winston Churchill. "All I am I owe to the House of Commons." Long a part of Commons' legend, the late Prime Minister is now a part of its architecture-and no insignificant part at that. Churchill's bronze statue, like his impact, is larger than life. It stands 7 ft. 5 in. in height, weighs a ton, and cost $26,400. Clementine, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, 84, handsomely turned out in fur coat and pale blue feather hat, stepped forward to unveil her famous husband's latest image. Blinking...
...owe it all to Captain Crunch. My success, that is, I was helpless without him since all summer in Mt. Kisco he was by my side, but once I got up here, he was nowhere to be found. By a stroke of good fortune, I found him waiting for me in Sage's the other day. Now with his guidance, there is no doubt in my mind that I can predict with an accuracy of 94 per cent or better...
...once the product and the prisoner of his genes. Civilizations flourish and decay, like dinosaurs, in obedience to irreversible genetic decrees. All the marvelous fruits of man's distinctive intelligence, of his ascent from the apes, owe their conception not to reason but to the unreasoning mandates of heredity. The human evolutionary course is determined by the microscopic chromosomes that constitute the only true inheritance passed from one generation to the next...