Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially happy to be here to lend my support to the Danforth Center and teaching in general because I would like Harvard to be excellent in all of its many endeavors, and this is one area in which there is room for improvement," Rosovsky told about 60 teaching fellows gathered in the Science Center...
Douglas County Sheriff Jerry Maple decided that there was no choice but to try to disarm the bomb. Though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had offered to lend a robot with mechanical claw and television-camera eye, the authorities relied instead on a local firefighter, who attached a small explosive device to the bomb, which was supposed to either destroy the control box or detonate the crate's contents. At 3:42 p.m., authorities crossed their fingers and set off the small explosive...
Killanin and Brundage have always contended that the Games are contests among individuals, not nations. This is a patently preposterous claim, given the I.O.C. prohibition against athletes competing as individuals rather than as nationals of a specific country. Several countries that refused to lend their national stature to the opening ceremonies were nevertheless happy to be identified in the Games. The nuances grow tedious, the examples superfluous. Every country that has ever participated in the Olympic Games, ancient or modern, knows that the events have political analogues, effects and overtones, and that the host country always gains useful prestige. When...
...survived and were bought by Hugh McKean, then president of Rollins College, and his wife Jeanette, a longtime Tiffany collector. With the windows, the McKeans set up a gallery near their home in Winter Park, Fla. Only after special pleas from Museum Director Thomas Buechner did they agree to lend the windows for Corning's opening...
...SASOL bombings seemed to lend considerable substance to Botha's recent warnings that a "total onslaught" is being prepared against white rule. To counter the rising militancy, the government this month has presented Parliament with a constitutional reform bill that would give a minor consultative role to non-whites but not to African blacks. Botha's limited racial reforms, however, fall tragically short of even moderate black requests for parliamentary representation and an end to racial discrimination. Nationalist guerrillas have now shown that they are ready to go after South Africa's industry to back up their...