Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressman from Illinois' 15th district (Aurora), a deep-dyed conservative who opened his 13-term career in 1936 by denouncing F.D.R.'s court-packing plan, retired in 1962 promising to remain "a missionary to the heathen of Capitol Hill," in between slashing out at the New-Deal, lend-lease, farm-price supports, the U.N., civil rights and foreign aid, while serving on the House committees on Un-American Activities, and Ways and Means; in Joliet...
...black Africa, are ironically concerned with the poor white man who survives as an unwelcome guest in lands where he once was master. Composition Piece examines through a black man's eyes "the new, post-war group of colonial administrators, liberal in opinions, immensely tolerant, who want to lend one books and dedicate their lives to one's assistance." Dawn at Reyn's Cop describes how history catches up with a young Boer who kills a Kaffir servant and discovers to his horror that the law is seriously prepared to demand a white life for a black...
...unpardonably superficial. We went to Alabama chiefly in response to Martin Luther King's call for help. Responding to desperate calls for help would seem to be appropriate clerical behavior. We went as an act of deliberate identification with those in need whose cause is just, to lend encouragement and support, and hopefully to redeem in part our past record of passivity and neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy. In Montgomery we discovered another reason for being present. Justice Department men encouraged us to join the march...
...imported polo teams from abroad to lend glamour to the place, and put them up all winter at his expense. Once he had a great idea for a motorboat race-he built eleven boats, all exactly to the same specifications, and invited eleven of the best auto-racing drivers to race them, with the stipulation that they would not be allowed to practice or even get in the boats before the race. On the great day six of the boats sank in collisions, but the publicity contributed handsomely to the new resort's perennial aura of spectator glamour...
Going even farther, Britain's Labor government is willing to transform the International Monetary Fund into a world central bank that would not only lend money but also create it. Though De Gaulle's call for a return to the gold standard has been roundly rejected, the French believe that they have won an important psychological battle: just about everybody wants to change the money system to give the world more floating capital...