Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote him as a landlord during the reinvestigation. He said: 'I really dare not lend out grain again...
...awaken the girl's interest in life. Pierre feels irritated with null for having brought such a chore into their busy lives, and Xaviere. for her part, instantly detests Pierre. Only after a hundred pages of mutual sneers does Pierre decide that it is his duty to lend null a hand...
...Their precision is achieved mainly through the skillful direction of Theodore Field. He seldom allows the seven to speak as a whole, preferring instead to let individual lines go to single persons or small groups. But the chorus always seems to speak at a feverish intensity; greater contrast would lend much to the dramatic effect. The three priests, on the contrary, speak with a careful modulation that shows thorough understanding of their roles...
...Home Economics, was still stoutly defending the old DOA view that the Government should perform any useful service that a group of citizens want. Said she: "These booklets are published to fill a need. When they get into the hands of people who do not need them, they lend themselves to the humor of incongruity...
...Civil Service investigations were conducted did not lend itself any too readily to televised dramatics. The official government statement made in 1952 makes clear the effort to avoid hysteria; "In establishing rules for security in the Civil Service with respect to Communists, Fascists and their fellow-travellers, the British Government has been concerned to protect vital state secrets while at the same time interfering as little as possible with the civil liberties of the individual. In order to do this, a distinction is drawn between secret and non-secret posts. To have associations with Communists or Fascists does...