Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never failed him; he wore his Porcellian chain prominently at his trial. In the last weeks before his indictment, Whitney asked hundreds of people for loans--usually requesting "a hundred" meaning $100,000--even from lower-grade Stock Exchange employees who had nowhere near that kind of money to lend...
...song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since the previously established snail's pace of the tune did not lend itself to a final ritard, the tune did not lend itself in the only way possible--the band itself literally falling headlong onto the stage. The band did one final number, "Good Golly Miss Molly," which featured some highly impressive guitar work on the part of brother Dave. The audience...
White is "an outstanding young woman," Chief Robert Tonis said yesterday. "She's confident, pleasant, attractive, and she'll lend a nice attitude to the force. We're proud to have...
There are some talented people in the cast: James Coburn, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, and Lee Grant trying mightily to lend substance to someone's bad fantasy of a newspaper woman. Virtually the entire movie is taken up with the planning and negotiation of the internecine bloodbath, with a few allowances for subtleties like characterization. There is, however, a rather nice suggestion throughout the film that in the world of applied politics, the real villians-detached, manipulative, powerful-can engineer anything, including a succession of murders, and tally up the results like the box score of adoubleheader...
Savings and loan associations normally lend more than half of the mortgage money that home buyers use to purchase houses, but this year they have had little cash to hand out. From April through September, the S and Ls lost almost $2.8 billion in deposits as savers withdrew their funds to seek higher interest rates elsewhere. Now, though, the Federal Reserve has eased its credit squeeze, interest rates on competing investments are coming down, and in October the S and Ls took in an estimated $650 million of new savings. The inflow will have to continue for several more months...