Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naktong River front, two companies of Britain's proud Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders took Hill 282, tried to hold on against severe Red fire. When ammunition ran low, the officer in command, Major Kenneth Muir, moved among his men, cheering them on. U.S. planes flew over to lend a hand. But the air strike was short of the target, fell instead on Muir's men. When it was over, only 30 effectives remained. The demoralized men withdrew down the hillside. Then, undaunted Major Muir said: "I'll take them up again, and this time we'll stay...
...Providing the government revised its tax system, eliminated official graft and corruption, and took several other remedial measures, the mission headed by Daniel W. Bell recommended that the U.S. lend $250 million...
...article which purported to "reconstruct" the recent shakeup in the Athletic Association, the Bulletin stated: "... while Mr. Bingham inclined to the view that he should cut all ties with the University, the President (Conant) was able to persuade him to stay on and lend valuable advice and help to the man who took over in his stead...
...Picked up a telephone and called Herbert Hoover in New York. "Mr. President, this is Harry Truman," said Harry Truman. He asked him (and Hoover agreed) to lend his prestige in appealing for the grain needed by famine-threatened India (TIME, Feb. 12). This week Truman formally asked Congress for authority to ship India the 2,000,000 tons of grain...
...with those of the century. He spent them in a gay round of European travels with rich friends. "One must get all the pleasure out of life that is possible," he wrote his mother. "I suppose you couldn't possibly either send me my allowance in advance or lend me about 15 pounds so that I can square this beastly hotel off and get my things...