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Word: lende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everybody in town likes Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford, the kind of guy who'll always lend a hand and is good with the children. Sure, he's a little intense sometimes, but no more than most people. But Lou Ford is far weirder than the people of Central City think. He's losing his ability to control "the sickness." Recent events have brought back the urge to kill and to purge himself of his twisted past...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: A Deputy Gone Mad | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...summer home confirms continuity: "Everything was always the same. Here was the boring card game that taught you the names of Canadian wildflowers; here was the Scrabble set with the Y and one of the U's missing." Such environments do not preclude drama or excitement; they lend individual events a scale of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amplitudes the Progress of Love | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...folding metal chairs. The effect, on anyone who came along in the high celebrity days of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney and Senor Wences too, is bizarre. Lacking animation, still, with their eyes wide as silver dollars and their goofy grins, they lend the room an air of the grotesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: 600 Unmoved Lips | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Since that time, however, the University has neglected to make a concerted, institutional response to the specific problem of homelessness in the City of Cambridge. Although Harvard cannot be expected to solve all the problems of urban poverty, it can lend a helping hand in its capacity as the city's largest property owner, landlord, and number one corporate citizen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Cities | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

...name of morality, opponents of social injustice call for Harvard to lend its institutional endorsement--and its endowment--to an agenda of political ends and means...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Inevitably Entangled | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

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