Word: owing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owe him two pledges," she added "First, that we will serve, as ably as we can, the high ideals his sacrifice evokes; and second, that we will not rest until he is once again with us, turning that bright mind and caring heart once more toward spreading the truth, as best an honest reporter can know...
DEMJANJUK'S TRIAL--the testimony against him, as well as his callous reactions to it--should incite a passionate reaction. Jews, especially, owe it to themselves to pay attention to and learn from this trial. To remember, to hurt, to burn, along with the survivors...
Which means he probably won't be wanting back the money I owe...
...power may be a desire for it. Since the White House is now in the hands of a very capable man from Tennessee, the business of government likely will proceed smoothly for the last 23 months of Reagan's term. But to accept that situation would be irresponsible. We owe it to our democratic heritage and to our future to hold our leaders to standards of responsibility and competence...
Kuehn and 37 other young adults owe their progress to a dynamic 62-year-old school secretary turned educator. Recalls Doris Walker: "I was a little old lady in tennis shoes to my classmates when I went back to college to get a degree in special education." With her new teaching certificate in hand, she took over a public school special-education class in Buena Park, Calif. Twelve years later, in 1980, she founded Hope University-Unico National College for the Gifted Mentally Retarded. Despite the grand title, the institution is located in two cramped rooms behind a shopping center...