Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he started the book. Once during a lunch with friends, he asked one of the wives present: "What have you been reading?" Answer: Le Repos du Guer-rier (The Warrior's Rest). Apparently thinking it a military tome, the President said eagerly: "Ah, tres bien. Could you lend it to me?" Actually, the book, whose movie version starred Brigitte Bardot, was a sultry item dealing more with conquests in the bedroom than on the battlefield...
...from (to note the most conspicuous gaps) the Departments of Classics, Philosophy, Social Relations, Romance or Germanic Languages or Comparative Literature. Of the short biographies, few are done with any imagination, and many glisten with inaccuracies. Why, with a year to work on them, should it be difficult to lend them some of the charm of Faye Levine's "Radcliffe at Harvard?" What, I ask with many others, are those Yearbook guys up to from September to June...
...economy was shifted into high gear by a combination of concurring factors: a buying splurge by the U.S. public, a more favorable presidential attitude toward business, the use of traditional but effective tools by Government, and the increasing willingness of industry's decision makers to spend, lend, build, modernize and expand. These factors came together at a time when the American people and Government realized that the economy was not living up to its potential-and needed a push to get it moving. Once all pushed together, the economy willingly took...
...Charles traveled to the far corners of his land persuading tribal chiefs to end their wars and forswear headhunting. When they protested that their enemies' heads were needed to propitiate the gods, the rajah ordered his English civil servants to stockpile mummified leftovers from previous wars and to lend them out to the villagers as needed. From his handsome riverside fortress in Kuching, he brought modest prosperity to the kingdom by exploiting its oil and rubber resources as well as diamonds, birds' nests (for Chinese gourmets) and gutta-percha (for golf balls). In 1941, celebrating the 100th anniversary...
...Dadaism to sur realism, but it was Dada that shaped him most. He was one of the few American members of the original school, and for him it never really died: his determined disrespect for the materials of art and deep attention to the ideas that art can shape lend the current collection its saving measure of excitement. In Optical Hopes and Illusions, bicycle riders ride cross-canvas to turn into eyeglasses. Etcetera seems nothing more than a row of bright blue buildings, ends up spelling out its title. Making the Fur Fly, Ray's homage to Georges Braque...