Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into Mamie's black Chrysler Crown Imperial, and sagged back against a white pillow. In a moment...
...managed to go modern after starting out as a swingster, refuses to admit that the clarinet has lost caste. "Brother, the clarinet still sounds as sweet and ridey as ever," he says. "The big fault lies in the lack of new men. Guys like Goodman, Shaw and myself should lend a hand, but Goodman is too busy sorting his jewelry, Shaw is still having trouble keeping track of his girls, and me, well, I have the problem of trying to keep up with Uncle Whiskers on my tax bill. Sure, we've lost ground, but when you listen...
...Puerto Ricans, the Knights of St. John. Founded in 1954, the Knights now number more than 1,000 families and sponsor social and recreational activities, run a hostel for newly arrived Puerto Ricans, a legal and medical-aid program, and are trying to set up a revolving fund to lend money at low interest...
...occupation forced on the Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages by the Christians, who were forbidden to lend money at interest - but not to borrow...
...single development project in the world today is the proposed high dam spanning the Nile at Aswan. The 15-year, $1.3 billion project will have 1,440,000 kw. of power capacity and increase Egypt's electric supply eightfold. Several months ago Black worked out a deal to lend Egypt $200 million to help get the project started, with the U.S. and Great Britain adding grants of $70 million. The only thing to be settled was the question of water rights between Egypt and neighboring Sudan...