Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distance seems to lend enchantment to Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. When he returned from exile again last March, vivas filled the air. In June's four-candidate presidential election, he won a clear plurality: 43% of the total vote...
Borrowing fake pictures turned out to be a difficult task. Many collectors were too shy to lend the gold bricks they had bought. Some refused to admit owning them, others were indignant at being asked, while a number merely refused to answer letters. "For every fake in the exhibition," said one museum staffer, "there were five we couldn't get." The museum finally opened the show this June. Last week the exhibition was still pulling in curious crowds...
...fallen on the village, but that May Moon, not they, had caused it. The cold silence of mura-hachibu enveloped the family, a severe form of ostracism in which no one will speak to the victims or aid them except in case of fire or funeral. No one would lend Ichiro tools and he could get no work. But he did not blame his daughter, and she did not blame the villagers. "The chiefs had told them that the village should cast many votes and would not be dishonored," said May Moon. "This is indeed a rural tragedy...
Stevenson himself has been an "operator," albeit a somewhat low-pressure one: many of the "operators," including Mitchell, are strongly attracted to Stevenson and vice versa. During the war, Mitchell worked for Lend-Lease and the State Department. Last March, he was appointed chief counsel for the House Judiciary subcommittee investigating the Justice Department (the Chelf Committee) and has used his powers in a very adroit...
...Bethesda Naval Hospital discovered that Senator Joseph McCarthy needed still more patching, and ordered an operation for diaphragmatic hernia. After successful surgery, McCarthy was told that the original ban on his politicking would be extended from six weeks to at least two months. Among those who agreed to lend their voices and pinch-hit in his campaign for reelection: Arthur Bliss Lane, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who will make an anti-Communist speech...