Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pantomimic specialty, she has enacted cats, urchins and tramps, done somersaults, cartwheels and pratfalls, careened on roller skates and horses, swung from a chandelier and a trapeze; acrobats used her as a jump rope. Kathryn, an off-screen wit, belittles the on-screen Kathryn: "You just lend your body to anyone you know is strong." One of her daughters once asked: "Mother, do you think these things are really quite suitable?" Producer Murray thinks so. Says he: "When women see Kathryn on a trapeze, they visualize themselves on a trapeze." Says Kathryn, "I hear I get a salary...
...contrast, Nielsen found, opposing network shows that do not lend themselves to shuttle sampling, e.g., dramatic shows, situation comedies, attract consistent levels of "loyalty" during their full-time periods. Moreover, their audiences are likely to see the commercials all the way through...
...Kennedy set off a cannon cracker in the Senate that rattled the windows at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and painfully burned an ally 3,800 miles away. The Kennedy rework: an urgent appeal for the U.S. to step into the bloody Algerian rebellion against French rule and lend its weight to the cause of Algerian independence...
...appreciate the benefits of tight money. With companies everywhere competing for more loans than there are funds available, the interest rate on prime loans stood at 4%, while lower-grade risks brought up to 6%. By gradually shifting out of low-paying Government bonds to get more cash to lend, most bankers reported earnings at an alltime peak, in some cases as much as 19% better than last year...
...event in Presley's real life not touched upon by Loving You is his invasion of Hollywood. This is understandable. To be true to its own brand of ballyhoo, the film would have to show Elvis-modest and shy fellow that he is-rejecting all offers to lend himself to Hollywood commercialism...