Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break with precedent, the Harvard Corporation agreed in late June to lend the Stadium for the series of four concerts, which are now billed as "Stadium...
...Department official put it, "there is a second string to our fiddle." Russia fears a Sino-American rapprochement. At the same time, it has seemed in some instances recently that Washington was teaming with Moscow against Peking. Last week's mild overture toward China was obviously intended to lend a little leverage to U.S. negotiators by demonstrating that the U.S. seeks to communicate with both Communist giants...
...credited in part to the tactical genius of another, greater emperor. Hadrian had been ruling barely five years when, in A.D. 122, a frontier tour brought him to the site of the wall. He evolved (personally, according to Divine) a radical new defense plan that helped in part to lend his name to the wall. Previously, Roman soldiers had been stationed in fortlets behind the barrier; from these they were ready to be rushed to threatened segments whenever an attack was mounted. Hadrian added cavalry, giving his forces far more flexibility and speed, and enabling them to meet any attack...
...rate writers in no danger of going to the stake." A compelling answer to this argument is that third-rate or even tenth-rate writers must be protected if first-rate writers are to be free. Banning books and prosecuting theater owners can actually be self-defeating, since they lend false glamour to the forbidden and the illicit. I Am Curious (Yellow) would in all likelihood not have become a vastly profitable movie if it had not first been the subject of a well-publicized prosecution by the U.S. Court of Appeals. In Sweden, where movies are almost never censored...
...banks lend their scarce funds largely to established corporate clients, and they continue enthusiastic promotions of consumer installment loans, which are enormously profitable. They turn down requests by smaller businesses, which are hurt worst by the credit restraint. Many small merchants are having trouble financing inventories...