Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Profit '69, president of PBH, suggested during the question period that Cambridge might set up an intern program to invite students to become part of the city government. Under such a program, Profit said, the students would work directly with city councillors and other officials in an effort to lend student talent to the City and at the same time learn about city government. Mrs. Ackermann said she would take up the proposal with the city manager...
...there than in the Commonwealth. Cambridge exerted intense pressure for another study of the Belt, and the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, in the midst of Johnsonian budget cutting, probably didn't want to spend the money for the road immediately, so the BPR found it highly advantageous to lend a kindly ear to Cambridge's plea...
Though The Immortal Story is a French production, it, too, boasts an American director, the prodigious Orson Welles, adapting an Isak Dinesen anecdote. The works of the Scandinavian taleteller resemble rows of icicles, gelid, brittle and pure. To bend them is to break them; to lend them warmth is to make them lose their integrity. Even Welles has been unable to fashion more than a laborious, misshapen exercise. The reasons are obvious. This is his first film in color-an inappropriate mode for a fiction written in etched, formal prose, devoid of the sensual palette. Secondly, because the movie...
...towards their unbounded wealth (they recently closed the Apple Boutique in London and gave away the store's entire stock of clothes free because, in Paul McCartney's words "We didn't want people to think that the Beatles had become mercenary") the radicals hoped that the Beatles would lend their wealth and influence to political causes...
...pact, which had been discussed for a decade before the Russians stopped saying nyet, is the first trickle in what the Japanese hope will become a Siberian thaw. Russia is already proposing that Japan might like to lend another $140 million to build a pipeline from Siberia's Ohka oilfields to the sea and perhaps take part in a $1.2 billion program to develop copper mines near Lake Baikal. Japan, which has few raw materials itself and is forced to import oil from the Middle East and copper from Africa, is understandably interested in these and other ventures...