Word: owing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mayor Richard Daley in next week's primary. At many of the stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support for an opponent is a token of what has happened to Singer's campaign. The impossible dream of an energetic upstart with a lot of nerve has turned into the most serious challenge to Daley...
...laments over "the twilight of the middle class" belie it, Mrs. Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath in the early '60s. The difference, however-and some fear that it may prove to be a disastrous one for the Tories in the next general election-is that...
Drunken Bandleader. It was a momentous decision. "Practically all the comedy shows owe their structure to Benny's conceptions," admitted Comedian Fred Allen. "The Benny show was like a One Man's Family in slapstick. He was the first comedian in radio to realize that you could get big laughs by ridiculing yourself instead of your stooges...
...SOME POINT, the members of the Harvard crew will have to consider issues more serious than the "fun" that will be derived from their competition. They owe it to themselves--and ultimately to all those who compete internationally in the future--to at least consider the moral and political implications of their cruise down the Nile this Christmas...
...owe my soul to the company store...