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...Romans 12:19: "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord...
College seniors who have been waiting for a chance to repay the good old Mr. Chips of their secondary school are currently nominating the high-school or prep-school teacher who had a "significant impact" on their lives for four "Awards for Distinguished Secondary Teachers...
...added, "spending $250,000 on renovating a pier which will never repay our capital expenditure can't be worth while to a company which is operating on stockholders' money. We just can't afford to save the Wharf for wholly sentimental reasons." Even raising the present $55 to $95 rents 100 per cent (which most tenants would be willing to accept) could not cover the costs of repair, said Mr. Love...
...dinner given by the U.S. embassy for Secretary of the Treasury Anderson, one very senior German whispered jokingly to a colleague: "I hope the ambassador can afford to feed us." The London Daily Herald had a nice old British lady tiptoe up to five G.I.s and offer to repay past U.S. generosity by sending food parcels to help "your dear ones over the economic crisis." The Daily Mail's Columnist John Jelley found a silver lining in the gold crisis (see BUSINESS), because now Americans "will be forced to realize that the world is not, after all, half antique...
...wins her back at the fade. Time and again the scriptwriters run out of ideas, and whenever that happens Elvis just hauls off and belts a ballad. There are ten of them, and every last one is goshawful. The dialogue is not much better. She: "How can I ever repay you?" He: "Oh, I'll think of something...