Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years of trying, the U.S. was finally going to get back two icebreakers it lent the Russians as part of the Soviet's $11 billion worth of Lend-Lease aid. The two ships will sail for Bremerhaven for transfer to U.S. hands before month's end, said a Soviet note. Promised two years ago, they have been stuck in the ice off Siberia, according to the Russians, and have apparently just become unstuck. The transfer will reduce the total number of lend-leased U.S. naval and merchant vessels still unreturned and unpaid for by the Russians...
...with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend him money...
...came out of all these experiences," Hoover notes, "with one absolute conviction, which was: America, with its skill in organization and the valor of its sons, could win great wars. But it could not make lasting peace. I was convinced we must keep out of Old World wars, lend ourselves to measures preventing war, maintaining peace and healing the wounds of war." There is no reason today, Herbert Hoover implies, to change that judgment...
Courtesy of the Road. Near Port Wing, Wis., Motorist Vernon Anderson pulled to a stop, flagged down the car behind him, frantically told its occupants that his wife was about to have a baby, relaxed when a druggist, an obstetrician and two other doctors got out to lend a hand...
...mayor's example of successful, noiseless campaigning might lend confidence to prospective politicians. But Crane continues, "I'm surprised that more people do not run for political office. Many well-qualified men do not enter politics because they have not recognized this public life as a career. In most cases today, the man, through his own selfish desires, seeks the office; seldom does the office seek the well-qualified...