Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House shouted through bills ranging from authorizing the Secretary of Defense to lend equipment to the Girl Scouts for their senior encampment to creating a commission to promote the centennial celebration in 1958 of Theodore Roosevelt's birth...
...because serious illness may come their way. Such a philosophy would be contrary to the teachings of all our great religions and a contradiction of the ethics of Western society. If a person should be so callous as to disregard such normal and humane considerations, the state should not lend encouragement to such callousness by allowing a divorce...
When Instructor O'Tarrell asked him to lend a hand, the boy flatly refused. Finally, O'Tarrell told him to clear out, but the boy retorted: "You put me out." "I'll escort you out,'' said O'Tarrell, and took the teen-ager by the arm. At that point, the boy pulled a switchblade knife out of his pocket, shook himself free, and plunged the blade twice into O'Tarrell's back. As five other stunned school employees and more than a hundred pupils stared in silence, he fled into the street...
Bargaining for the much-needed fleet of King Nicomedes of Bithynia, Caesar was faced with one condition; the King would lend his fleet "if the handsome young Roman noble would sleep with him." Although he was always known as an enthusiastic ladies' man, Caesar agreed, and felt he had done his country a patriotic turn...
...last-minute scramble that is most harrowing. Every man and woman in the show gets one fitting only. Next to the last day, they are fitted at the rate of one every 20 minutes. If anything is wrong, there are 14 tailors and 14 dressmakers backstage to lend a hand...