Word: owing
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Even the colonization of the New World may owe as much to epidemic disease as to gunpowder and the quest for gold. The Aztecs, McNeill notes, were on the verge of ousting Cortes from Mexico when an outbreak of smallpox blunted their assault. The disease spared the Spanish, who had already developed some immunity, but so devastated the Indians that even 50 years later the population of central Mexico was only one-tenth what it had been before Cortes landed...
...spend years planning their congressional races. The fact that his first visit to Washington came only after he was elected to Congress immediately sets him apart from the hundreds of Harvard students who go to the city each summer on prestigious internships. He and his twin younger brothers all owe money to the government for the National Student Defense loans that helped put them through college and law school...
...Grand Rapids to vote. Perhaps it was the emotion welling up from the huge welcoming throng, perhaps it was the memories of his youth, but when he spoke to the crowd about his parents, he was near tears and his voice cracked. "Everything I have," said he, "I owe to Gerald R. Ford Sr. [long pause] and Dorothy Ford...
Vonnegut's principal characters are Dr. Wilbur Swain and Eliza Swain, a brother and sister who seem to owe some of their identities to Vladimir Nabokov's Van and Ada of Ada. The aged doctor camps out in the lobby remnant of the Empire State Building and relates the disjointed fantasy of his life and times...
...OWE forum is designed to let Radcliffe students hear about the experiences of women in professions. Sessions for women in business, health careers, educational administration, and media and public affairs are planned for later this year. They will emphasize "career information more than encouragement," Judith B. Walzer, head of OWE, said yesterday...