Word: lend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...math during his school years. Nadav will talk about almost anything. "The Americans are good but naive," he says. "In Vietnam, they try to help people but they don't know how." He has just read a book on Mongolia, which he liked very much, and offers to lend it out. He does not hate the Arabs--except for the Syrians--or laugh at their ludicrous performance in the air. How can you fix or fly a plane, he queries, when you never see a machine most of your life...
...anchor of the defense is the middle guard. His assignment is to plug the gaps and lend tackling support from one end of the line to the other. To evaluate the play of Stan Greenidge, the Crimson's All-Ivy middle guard, you wouldn't count the number of times he throws a quarterback for a loss. Those occasions are freaks: when Harvard catches the offense off guard with a defense switch or when the Crimson finds itself in a position where it needs to gamble. Rather, watch Greenidge hold his position against a single blocker...
...Expo 67, which is plugged almost everywhere into an array of far-out, ear-frazzling electronic music. Rather than standing on its own, it functions as an element in a mind-blowing fantasy of give-and-take with visual phenomena; the eerie amplified sounds absorb logic from their surroundings, lend drama to the enveloping space, and force the observer to fuse eye and ear into one receptive organ...
Belated Astonishment. The Administration has long been citing the danger of a renewal of last year's price spiral as an argument for its tax bill, and now is using the figures to lend an unusual urgency to the pitch. In a generally rosy report on the economy last week, Presidential Adviser Gardner Ackley was moved to emphasize "unwelcome but convincing indications of inflationary pressures ahead...
...much less than the stock itself. His "ideal" investment is the convertible debenture, a bond that the owner can convert into stock and which, at its best, combines high yield with growth. Investors who are willing to borrow heavily can get considerable leverage with debentures, because bankers commonly lend from 75% to 90% of the purchase price...