Word: lended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give the neat, well-mannered prose an occasional touch of irony. But young debutantes who sugar their very small talk with references to Louis XI (not XIII or XIV), and butler who tell dinner guests when their hostes wants them to switch conversational part ners, all lend a persistent air of unreality almost as if the author were intent 01 parody...
...lifeline, the Burma Road; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Finding the Burma Road a twisting 726 miles of confusion, corruption and peril, Arnstein banged heads together, introduced a truck maintenance system ("The Chinese had never heard of grease") and centralized control, within a few months quadrupled the flow of lend-lease traffic...
...congressional election in 1912 in a lunatic-fringe tract mailed from Aurora, Mo. The following year, a congressional committee investigating unfair election practices condemned the oath as a fabrication. At that time, the false oath was read into the Congressional Record, a fact that present-day bigots cite to lend it an air of authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again last spring during the West Virginia primary battle between Jack Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. A scattering of clergymen have recently quoted it in sermons, and it has been printed in newsletters...
...biggest effects of the FRB's actions are not likely to be felt for some time. Bankers hope that the 5% prime rate of U.S. banks-the interest charged the biggest borrowers with the best credit-will not drop too soon. "Any bank in Dallas probably could lend twice as much money as it has available to lend," said a Dallas bank officer, "and the Fed's action won't change this situation." Most big-city banks have some 60% or more of their deposits out in loans, close to the highest deposit-loan ratio in history...
...American masses who are anxious for a better life." Cuban diplomats across the hemisphere are hard at work spreading Che's "truth" and Communist propaganda. Allied with anyone who will cooperate, from Communists to sincere social work ers, they organize July 26 movements, show films of revolutionary progress, lend a hand in subversive plots, campaign for support among the backland peasants. In Venezuela last week, cops set out to arrest the leader of the July 26 movement after clashes of pro-and anti-Castro rioters and fatally shot him in a doorway. In Argentina, intelligence agents confronted the Cuban...