Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mathematical vulnerability-is great, and each loss, particularly in key industrial states, will subtract from the organizational muscle that the President will need for his expected 1972 re-election bid. In his concentration this year on the House and, above all, the Senate races, Nixon only belatedly began to lend help to Republican gubernatorial contenders...
...abler witness than Charles Reich. The gropings of the young toward a natural piety and spiritual brotherhood in a time admittedly cut off from religion and nature may possibly be the single most significant struggle in recent U.S. history. But Reich's attempt to use historical perspective to lend the advent of Consciousness III sensibility a sense of Marxian inevitability is a failure. Perhaps this is because, while he pretends to exhaustive analysis, he deliberately ignores the one essential issue involved. The success or failure of a return to the Garden of Eden -even with Adam and Eve played...
...first month in the Dean's office listening to complaints and trying to forge a practicable mode for his work. The Dean's office has always dealt with a combination of administrative coordination and student problems, but under Epps, a new emphasis on some controversial topics is likely to lend a very personal character...
Since the Weathermen's Chicago Days of Rage in October 1969, few have failed to take the bomb-happy organization seriously. But the timing and breadth of the latest explosions lend an even more ominous tone to the desperate threats of Bernardine Dohrn's taped message. "It is our job to blast away the myths of the total superiority of the Man," she said. In pursuing that fantasy, the bombers are more likely to destroy whatever patience remains in a nation already too tense for its own good...
...Ivory Soap's "99 and 44/100 percent pure" slogan was first floated in 1882. The big use of the old numbers game right now is a result of the hard tussle for the consumer's dollar in a period of economic slack. Numbers lend an impression of credibility and precision that helps the buyer justify his purchase. Figures also have a strong appeal for financial men, who make or approve corporate buying decisions. Thus IBM ads promise that its equipment will cut reproduction costs...