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Word: lend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into Madrid from Spain's bishops, from the Vatican, even from the commander of the Burgos military region. Some of Franco's own ministers are known to feel that the case, which is being tried in a military court and prosecuted on exceedingly slim evidence, can only lend credence to E.T.A. charges of "oppression against a people who were born to be free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Men of Euskadi | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...elegantly superior to much of what rock has produced in the past year or two. Part of the credit for that must go to John's favorite arranger, Paul Buckmaster, 24, whose deft classical touches-sweeping strings and poignant little solos by oboe and harp, for example-lend both drama and restraint to John's big beat. The first album is already in Billboard's top 25. Tumbleweed, earthier and more direct, ought to be one of the big hits of 1971. John's first U.S. tour-last week he all but filled the Tyrone Guthrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Handstands and Fluent Fusion | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

Before the match, the M.I.T. team disguised themselves as mediocre players and told the Harvard team that the varsity squad had not reserved the courts until 7 p.m. When the designated hour rolled around, the skinflint Engineer manager finally consented to "lend" Harvard some squash balls to practice...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Racquetmen Overwhelm Engineers; Crimson Takes 27 Straight Games | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

...thought it did, and took a stand. As it turned out, nothing of great value was lost; but the members of the Yale community were convinced that their university would be burned to the ground by the end of the Mayday weekend, and yet were still willing to lend their support to the rally on the Green...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Books Mephistopheles and Faust at Yale Letter to the Alumni, | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...advocation of freedom in the "act of refusal" is not consistent with the determinist world view of dialectical materialism, which leads any good Communist ideologue to define freedom as the recognition of necessity and to dismiss any other notion as bourgeois sentiment. Nor did her flamboyant Afro coiffure lend itself to the proper image of an austere Communist. And her association with a spoiled playboy who had Communist connections is the stuff of an Irving Wallace novel. So what gives? Are the Communists using Miss Davis to revamp their dreary image? Is Angela using the Communists and the sensationalist media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1970 | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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