Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization called the International Development Association (IDA) got under way last week and immediately ran into the familiar experience of seeing other nations avert their gaze when the plate was passed. Conceived as a soft-currency adjunct to the World Bank, in which underdeveloped nations may borrow dollars and other hard currencies but can repay in a variety of nonconvertible currencies such as rupees or drachmas, IDA originally was to start with $1 billion in capital. Though the U.S. dutifully subscribed its promised one-third-$320 million-in full, other nations fell short, and IDA last week began with...
...Danville Library was open for standees only. Every chair and table was gone. Next week all library cards will be canceled. To get a new card, the applicant must pay $2.50 and fill out a four-page form, listing everything from the type of books he plans to borrow to his college degrees, plus two character references and two credit references...
...recalling his father's struggles. "Our army was composed of a number of woodcutters and egg sellers. Civil servants' salaries were paid in bricks instead of money. Whenever the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to give a banquet, it had to send someone to the bazaar to borrow 100 tomans...
Like Cole Porter, he could dip into a source play, borrow a line and spin a lyric. In Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the heroine wonders aloud what it would be like "if I loved you," then pauses to reflect silently. Adapting the play as Carousel, Hammerstein and Rodgers filled the pause with unadorned grace: If I loved...
...French and Italian primitive painters of Nice and the surrounding regions. The search was not easy. Some villages balked at surrendering the one treasure that for generations had been the pride of their lives, others in the mountains worried about how their treasures would survive the rough roads. To borrow an altarpiece done by Nice's Louis Brea for Jean Grimaldi in 1500, Thirion had to get permission from both the Bishop of Monaco and the present Grimaldi, Prince Rainier. To get any work in France meant soliciting first the government in Paris, then the local bishop, priest...