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Although the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the attorney general are Republicans, none of them owe their offices to their membership in the Republican party. Poor opposition and large personal interparty organizations elected most of them...
When asked, some cadets will say that they enrolled in ROTC because they believe military service is a personal obligation which they have to their country. "I owe my country a couple of years of my life," one says. Others explain they enrolled in ROTC because they came to Harvard from military schools, or because they come from military families...
What will he do with the money? "I'm just going to salt it away with an eye on taxes for next year. I'm making so much money I'm going to owe the Government my eye teeth," Alfred said...
...best children's records on today's market, even those in pop jackets, owe something to another day-old games, old rhymes, old writers, even oldtimers reading very old yarns. Choice selections...
Restored in the end to his hospital bed, Spindrift ponders, along with the reader, the ageless riddle of reality. Do Ippo and the others owe their existence to the anesthesiologist? Did he surprise Sheila, his unfaithful wife, in flagrante delicto? Was the tumor removed? Was there a tumor? Uncertain and yearning to know, he ventures out again and at once bumps into Ippo, a walking advert for JOE'S ALL-NIGHT SAUSAGES...