Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ladies' undergarments, like the Marshall Plan, are designed to lend support to needy areas. The help, however, is meant to be unobtrusive, and should not -via bulge, seam, ridge or twanging wire -make itself conspicuous. The U.S. foundation industry has looked for years for a brassiere that will support and uphold the female figure (and its component parts) without betraying its truss...
...front grill and a squared-off rear end give them a wider, more massive appearance. For the man who wants the look but not the leak of a convertible, the F85 and the 88 feature a sheet-metal roof contoured like a cloth top, even to the ripples that lend the illusion of a metal frame supporting sagging fabric...
Hughes's control of TWA began to slip last year, when he ran into trouble with a $165 million financing plan to pay for jets. New York's Irving Trust Co. and Equitable Life finally agreed to lend TWA the money, but only on stringent conditions: Hughes was obliged to place the 78% of TWA's stock owned by Hughes Tool Co. under the control of a voting trust composed of former Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving S. Olds, and Raymond M. Holliday, chief operating officer of Hughes Tool...
...Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles muffled Gielgud, and the Emphatic Shimmy, apparently an attempt to lend emphasis to a speech by wriggling one's body wildly...
...interested, and young enough not to have been personally committed, has now moved into the field. Hugh Thomas, whose background is Cambridge, the British Foreign Office and Sandhurst, has, by his own account, consulted nearly a thousand books in five great libraries and in five languages to lend weight to his massive reappraisal of Spain. He is the first historian to write as neither a partisan nor an embittered memoirist. His book is likely to be for some time the definitive précis of the records and the last tabulation of disks from the military cemeteries. Thomas' material...