Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Spencer's discovery cannot directly explain the cases of the San Francisco 49ers or the Ohio schoolteachers, it does lend credence to the notion that something toxic in diet or environment can later trigger ALS. Indeed, over the years, a befuddling array of culprits has been suggested. They include infection with poliovirus, exposure to heavy metals, employment in the plastics industry and a history of traumatic injuries...
Council members are now more politically conservative, Zegart says. Also, the issues that have been debated this fall such as overcrowding, discipline and tenure "lend themselves to unified student sentiment," she says. Last year's hot topics, divestment and council support of E4D, were divisive and precipitated problems, she says...
Even the most jaded sky watchers were intrigued last week by three remarkable discoveries reported at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, Calif. Two of the finds lend support to current theories about the formation of planets and of galaxies, immense islands of hundreds of billions of stars. But a third -- two gigantic, well-defined arcs of light, as well as fragments of another -- cannot be explained to anyone's satisfaction...
...exotic women who seem to hover around him. He has often been accused of hiring expensive call girls to seduce the men he is attempting to do business with. He amiably confesses to paying for escorts to liven up business functions. The women, he suggests, sweeten the deal. "They lend beauty and fragrance to the surroundings," he says, while sitting on the terrace of his Marbella house overlooking Gibraltar. "They are also intelligent hostesses. I challenge anyone to come forward and prove that I ever told him the girls are available for sex," he says with a smile...
...this quirky storytelling device meant to lend intellectual gloss to an apparently slight tale? Is Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr., whose works (The Dining Room, The Perfect Party) are often short on incident but long on sly allusion and will-o'-the-wisp charm, once again slipping away from consummation of a plot? Beneath the winsome comedy, Gurney is playing with the Whitmanesque notion that each man contains multitudes. When the two Sues contemplate a nude sketch of the boy -- all that lingers from the maybe affair -- what they term "very good" is not just his lithe body or their rendering...