Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carefully concealed all foreign aid, such as the $250 million UNRRA has allocated to Byelorussia and the Ukraine. (No wartime budget ever mentioned Lend-Lease, though experts calculate that it provided one-fifth of the 1945 budget.) ¶Increased the already liberal allowances for mothers as an incentive to still larger Soviet families. Payments range from 400 rubles for a third child to 5,000 for each one after the tenth, plus monthly allowances of 80 to 300 rubles. For bearing five or more children, mothers get the Medal of Maternal Glory...
Radcliffe, Simmons Lend Talent...
...newly formed Student Federalists Regional Council for Now England, which was the name the Interstudent Council adopted, resolved to lend their efforts towards getting a favorable vote on referendum number one in Massachusetts elections. The referendum puts the state on record for strengthening the United Nations in the direction of a world government...
...true obstacles to increased immigration, then, are not rational but emotional. The immigrants are there and land and economic potential are here. Cushioned upon entry by relatives and welfare agencies, the hounded of Europe would soon lend the Nation their talents, enthusiasms, and numbers. Humane principles call for increased immigration. Economic standards offer no objections. The door must he opened...
...story told through the person of Jack Burden-- newspaper man, intellectual, and above all, cynic. A man of intelligence whose life has been largely wasted, symbol of the sterility and deracination of modern man who can find nothing on which to center his life and thereby lend it meaning. But although he tells it, the story is not Jack Burden's, it is Willie Stark's, the mock-heroic man of the people whose earnestness "to do good" is corrupted by lust for power. Critics of Warren have pointed out the close parallels between the careers of Willie Stark...