Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he formed his Popular Democratic Party and ran for the island Senate, Muñoz had decided that "status is not the issue." To the jíbaros, the country men, he promised labor laws and land reform instead of independence. He urged voters to "lend me your vote" rather than sell it to the opposition. His followers called him El Vate (The Bard) and elected him to office. In those days, needlewomen who worked at home in the island's second biggest industry after sugar were getting just 3? for hemming a dozen handkerchiefs...
...spittle on his turbulent good-will swing through Latin America. After Nixon returned home, one of the main points in U.S. reappraisal of Latin American relations was that reasonable U.S. aid should be promptly and cheerfully given. Last week the U.S. cut through red tape and delay to lend Chile $25 million and Colombia $103 million...
CREDIT HELP is coming for small businessmen. Senate Banking Committee passed bill to lend $250 million to investment companies, which then would make long-term (up to 30 years) loans to small business. Prospects for congressional approval this year: good...
...would spend a weekend with him in the city. "I guarantee I won't touch you," he assured her, gasping with excitement. Suzanne contemptuously accepted his diamond but declined payment, and Joseph stirred worms into his coffee. But Ma led the suitor on, in hopes he would lend her money. When he didn't, Joseph ran him off the place with a shotgun, and then ran off himself-to the city...
With enough tail wind to lend a hand but not enough to materially ruffle the waters of the Basin, Coolidge jumped into an early lead which was never seriously challenged. He finished with an estimated four and one-half lengths of open water between himself and his nearest rival...