Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swaying in cowboy skirts; liquor-riddled voices straining on old records. To make up for this, the simplicity has got to go, replaced by five instruments doing interesting things all at once. Here it's an electric fiddle, pedal steel, lead guitar, bass, banjo, and drums, and they all lend a propensity for jazz-and-rock-like riffs. The Grateful Dead and the New Riders do this with country music, but their songs are different, trippy and abstract rather than sensual and evocative...
...April of 1967 the American State Department was one of the few organs willing to lend credence to Papadopoulos's fears, While most countries reacted to the news of impending communist revolution disdainfully, Turkey and Portugal were the only NATO nations that viewed matters from the same perspective as the U.S. The United States claimed to be interested in the security of NATO. Yet NATO is ostensibly designed to safeguard freedom and democracy, concepts that didn't jibe with the interests of a totalitarian regime. The coup violated both NATO's humanitarian principles and its strategic military commitments. The defense...
...truth seeker: doubt. One hundred and fifty years ago Charles Lamb observed that credulity was the child's strength but the adult's weakness. That observation is even more valid today, when shoddy or ignorant research is used to lend legitimacy to the most extravagant tenets of the psychic movement...
GRANDFATHER'S IMPOSITION tries desperately to be interesting. It bombards the audience with passion, adventure, crime and comedy--all in a comfortable domestic setting designed to lend an air of familiarity to the bizarre events. The central character is so colorful that he almost hurts your eyes, and the violent reactions he provokes could furnish enough melodrama for at least three full-length plays...
...realistic legislative proposals, designed to increase the amount of federally-insured funds available to undergraduates. The so-called Sloan Report urges a gradual repayment plan, a long-term loan system, and a lower cut-off level for federal interest benefits. Rapidly rising tuition and room and board fees lend support to these suggestions and emphasize the absolute impracticality and inequity of loan cut-backs proposed by the Nixon administration...