Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millionaires" to help out in NRA. His old friend Harry Hopkins-whom he had met at a Long Island croquet party in pre-New-Deal days-eventually pulled him into the White House vortex. Harriman's first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist dream, was skeptical of the Kremlin's power politics as early as 1943. Two years later he officially warned Washington...
...father's third wife is outstanding in a generally admirable cast. Abbie played by Priseilla Amidon is also excellent; she catches every nuance of change as passion makes its erratic inroads on her grasping egotism. Finally Larry Gates, though competent lets his flights from peacefulness to high fury lend a note of unevenness to what should have been a consistent character. The other members of the cast were all credible New Englanders, a tribute to the direction of Henry Weinstein...
...house committee has agreed to lend the company $180 to help defray installation costs. The company could put up the entire $500 for this expense, but felt if the committee had a financial interest in the project, it would see that the machines were used...
...minor organizations are presented point up the general inadequacy of the rest. The sports section is especially unstimulating; the minor sports articles read like schedules of wins and losses, broken only by pathetic attempts to find synonyms for "win," "trounce," and "beat." Admittedly minor sports schedules do not lend themselves to creativity, but this simply emphasizes the need to use the half page or so for each sport in some more elegant way than in a chronological summary of successive jubilation...
...Houses Lend Money...