Word: owing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peru and other oil-poor developing countries. Consumers in the '20s had just discovered the installment plan and were plunging into debt to buy radios, refrigerators and that new Model A from Henry Ford. Their grandchildren now have "plastic money" in the form of credit cards and owe $292.5 billion. The '20s real estate boom was centered in Florida, had created millionaires and seemed to prove, then as now, that one rarely loses money buying land. Even President Carter's insistence last week that the U.S. had a "good solid economy" stirred echoes of Herbert Hoover, another...
Methods aside, McMahon draws on a more direct connection between his work as a professor and his writing. Gordon McKay, protagonist of McKay's Bees, is a familiar name in Harvard science departments. About 50 scientists, including almost the whole faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department, owe their livelihood to his very large endowment. McMahon, one of the flock, pays tribute with his novel--"90 per cent of the book is lies about Gordon McKay," he says, though the last chapter, in which McKay returns to Cambridge, makes a fortune in shoe manufacturing, and befriends several Harvard faculty members...
...when Israel became a state, or in 1967, when Israel moved into the West Bank and Gaza, are dispersed all over the Middle East, in Jordan, in the Emirates, in Saudi Arabia, in Syria, in Lebanon where the guerillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are located. Some Palestinians owe their allegiance to the state in which they live; others recognize the PLO as their spokesman; the allegiance of the Palestinians of the West Bank--which was part of Jordan between 1948 and 1967--is the stake of a contest between the PLO and Jordan. The PLO itself...
...last command to us all: 'Pamietaj! Remember! Never forget and never forgive!' " Later, racked with sobs, he recalled the years of hiding and flight. "On the last day I heard some Poles shouting, 'Look at the Jews fry!' as the ghetto flamed. But I also owe my life to Polish Christians who kept me and my father hidden in a cemetery, where we lived for over a year." He shrugged. "There is good...
Never again will hurricanes smite without warning, after building up their strength unnoticed in the open sea. Every storm that moves upon the face of the globe is now watched by meteorological satellites, to which thousands already owe their lives...