Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech on trade with the Communists, Rockefeller advocated increasing U.S. economic ties with Russia, providing that Russia pays her $7 to $9 million Lend Lease debt to the United States, that she provides adequate patent protection or copyright laws, and that the international climate improves...
Plucking the silk strings claw-hammer fashion with his right hand, Eto drew an incisive, harplike sound from the koto. As if feeling a pulse, his left hand roamed the length of the instrument, deftly depressing the vibrating strings in order to vary tones and lend the tinge of melancholy that is the unique trait of the koto. The opening melody, sketched against a background of moaning strings and sudden percussive bursts, followed the austere style of the ancient gagaku court music of Japan, then shifted in the second movement to a distinctly Western hymnal theme. In the final movement...
...that time, in a very unusual move, the Corporation voted to lend the School the extra money. Then, President Pusey termed the action "a very significant one because it gives firm indication that the University is willing to stand behind the School and work with it in solving its problems...
...most that the U.S.-Belgian proposals might achieve would be to make it easier for such moderate African na tions as Nigeria, Tunisia and Sierra Leone to lend moral support to Tshombe. But what the Congo really needs is increased military and administrative assistance, aimed at building an army that will fight without white leadership and a civil service that won't steal the country blind. Rather than trying to polish Tshombe's ineradicably tarnished image through hopeful half-measures, Brussels and Washington would do better sending him increased logistic and material support. After all, Mike Hoare...
...describe as a "maverick," and he has had solid careers in both Washington bureaucracy and big business. A graduate of Syracuse University ('36) and Harvard Law School ('39), he went to work for a top New York law firm, moved off to Washington in 1942 as a Lend-Lease Administration lawyer, soon switched over to be chief counsel to Dr. Vannevar Bush's Office of Scientific Research and Development, which was then working on the atomic bomb. He spent a postwar year as special assistant to James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947 went...