Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Williams resigned, bounced off to lend Bodenhamer the full measure of his private talents...
Unwilling to lend himself to propaganda circuses. De Gaulle had no enthusiasm for participating in a TV spectacular in Manhattan. He said that a summit meeting must be prepared with care, which would require time, and that since "the destiny of the Middle East affects in a direct manner that of all Europe," he proposed before any such meeting to "begin immediate consultations with other powers, notably European ones, which are interested." If Khrushchev wanted a special U.N. Security Council session, "considering, apparently, that the urgency of the questions relating to the Middle East has diminished," then such nations...
...taking form throughout the area. The U.S.'s aid experts will inspect the fruits of past aid programs and discuss needs for new ones. Examples: the Export-Import Bank is considering a loan of $500,000 to the Honduran Development Bank, and the U.S. International Cooperation Administration may lend $1,700,000 for school construction in Panama. El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala will want to talk about the troublesome world surplus of coffee...
...Lodge was "soft on Communism" and that therefore he decided to move over and back Democratic Candidate John Kennedy. The day the Post's Kennedy-for-Senator editorial appeared, by Fox's account, Fox talked to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, multimillionaire father of the candidate, who agreed to lend Fox a cool $500,000-and later achieved the feat of getting it back. John Kennedy won the Senate by a slim 70,000 votes, and Fox still claims credit for his election...
...TIME, Oct. 3 and Nov. 21, 1955). Yet Town began, through CBS's courageous suggestion to Serling, as a thinly veiled dramatization of the Till case. A précis of Serling's first effort was rejected by all but one of the sponsors; they would not lend their brand names or money to a treatment of racism that might prejudice Southern customers against their products...