Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just about all it has. The Odessa File has lumbering yearnings to be a kind of fictional semidocumentary. It invokes Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, whose name is listed in the credits as an adviser and who even appears, played by an Israeli actor, as a futile attempt to lend the project a little importance, like using the name of a prominent figure on a foundation letterhead...
...saved on weapons be spent at home rather than abroad to help poor nations feed themselves. American Consumer Advocate Esther Peterson already questions the wisdom of providing food for hungry countries when the U.S. cost of living continues to climb. Of course, the oil-possessing nations could give and lend much more, but so far they have shared little of their new wealth with the poor, the weak and the hungry...
...existence of such psychic phenomena as telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition were jubilant; in their view, Nature had bestowed upon them the recognition and respectability that the scientific establishment has so long withheld. Some skeptics were dismayed; they felt the mere publication of the report in Nature would lend legitimacy to many of the hotly disputed tenets of parapsychology...
...foreseeable future, it might as well be accepted with some degree of good cheer. The title cut kicks things off with air-raid sirens sounding, bombs exploding, and machine guns firing mixed over a breakfast conversation between husband and wife. Anderson on alto sax joins pianist John Evan to lend a madrigal-like impression to the opening few measures. The tune progresses as it deals with war's romantic side, a romanticism evoked musically by the coupling of a flowing melody (played by the strings) and a series of ascending and descending runs (banged out an Evan's piano...
...some. Ford signed into law the Brooke-Cranston bill, a measure that will pump $7.75 billion of federal funds into the sere U.S. residential mortgage market over the next twelve months. Earlier, the President had urged Congress to make available only $3 billion to federal agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over, the Administration will move to clamp controls on construction wages and the prices of building materials, despite the President's oft-stated opposition to wage-price...