Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunch and I had to go to the ladies' room and finally I got very disturbed. I decided I will forget I am a lady-supposed to be-and I said, 'Mr. Wojciechowski, if you are not going to let me out of here, you lend me your hat.' " Mr. Wojciechowski...
...Ambassador to Honduras, onetime Boston admiralty lawyer Whiting Willauer, 50, got a call for some strictly non-routine work. A twelve-year-old boy had drowned while swimming in a river pool near the capital city of Tegucigalpa, but the body could not be found. Would the Ambassador lend his skindiving equipment to help the search? "Whitey" Willauer gladly complied, but the borrowers did not understand how to use the equipment. The ambassador forthwith donned his own oxygen mask and tank, dived into the 40-ft. depths, found the boy's body and brought it to the surface. Explained...
...newly required course in methods and the Senior Seminar will also serve to lend continuity to the mass of theory and information that the concentrator in Social Relations encounters. Perhaps though, the most important changes are those making concentration more difficult...
Haifa clothing merchants agreed to lend each officer a civilian suit for a day, and a tour usually began with host (recruited among Haifa doctors, lawyers, engineers and architects) and his Egyptian "guest" in a tailor shop amiably debating the fit or fashion of assorted suits or shirts. The host took his Egyptian wherever he wanted to go, to see whatever he wanted to see. Some went to the movies, to concerts, sipped coffee in cafés, went shopping in Haifa or Jerusalem. Others visited factories, cooperative villages and kibbutzim...
Perhaps he follows the critic's beam hoping the critic will lend it to him after a while, hoping that if he reads "Paradise Lost" often enough, he will discover his own experience. The experiment is seldom tried, and I also suspect that the poem, like the sphinx, speaks only when he expects to hear a voice, and that following the critics will produce only the voice which he has been told he will hear. If he reads a book about which he has heard enough, he can only react in those particular terms. He may reject or accept...