Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lend-lease plan under which McHale worked began as an idea of T. S. Matthews, editor of TIME. In London one day last spring, Matthews had a talk with Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the Economist. Crowther agreed to give one of our writers "house room," but modestly insisted that he saw no way in which TIME would benefit. Matthews replied that he'd take the chance. So began McHale's tour of duty on the 117-year-old British publication...
NATO. Washington, while warmly praising Turkish bravery in Korea, refused to commit itself. Last week the Turks tried another tack. Turkey's Ambassador in Washington formally invited the U.S. to join the British-French-Turkish mutual-assistance pact of 1939, which obliges the three nations to "lend all aid and assistance in their power" in case one is attacked...
Four months later he persuaded a bank to lend him $10,000 to go into the auto sales business himself. In a short time he hit on the idea of buying new cars at reduced prices at the end of the year just when the models were about to change, and selling them well under list prices. Before long his salesmen and brash advertisements were covering the Midwest...
Restating his position Sears maintained: "I object . . . to Harvard's permitting the use of its facilities to lend prestige to a Communist front organization or its representatives...
...does not necessarily follow that a refusal to lend aid to the spread of Communist propaganda is a suppression of freedom of speech and thought...