Word: owing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest draw, students say, is an over-whelming obligation to learn about the Ukrainian heritage and perpetuate it. Many students say they believe they owe that to their Ukrainian ancestors who endured tremendous oppression throughout the last three centuries...
...could eat without getting greasy fingers or being distracted by a fork and knife as he concentrated on the gaming table. This sort of convenience has delighted sandwich fans ever since. Extolling Montagu's contribution in Getting Even, Woody Allen wrote, "He freed mankind from the hot lunch. We owe him so much." Other countries dally with sandwiches--France with its croque-monsieur (a grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich), the Danes with their open-faced smorrebrod, which require knives and forks, the Greeks and Middle Easterners with their pita pockets full of lamb or falafel--but only in America...
...owe him a debt of gratitude," agrees Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50, another of the 350th's key planners...
...week's end, when the traveling White House reached Tokyo, the Administration's anger at Moscow had grown. In his Saturday radio address, Reagan declared, "The Soviets owe the world an explanation. A full accounting of what happened at Chernobyl and what is happening now is the least the world community has a right to expect...
...family's isolated home in Cavendish, Vt., where he began playing at age six and still practices between schoolwork for three hours a day. How does his father react to his concert work? "He's very supportive," says the teenager in a clipped accent that by now seems to owe as much to New England as to the U.S.S.R...