Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia, for example, has sent India four experimental tractors and one small electric computer. It has lent India nine Soviet economists, and promises to build a 1,000,000-ton steel plant in central India at a low rate of interest and with the help of Russian engineers. But if every Russian crop-dusting loan to some Middle East nation is to be considered a setback for the West, then presumably the Russians would have been crushed years ago by the weight of U.S. aid. In the past three years, the U.S. has spent in India alone...
...million on a wheat loan. C| $161 million in silver, lent to support India's currency...
...with flaunting style, like a merry kilt to Scottish calves. Moreover, Quentin Durward is as easy on the eyes as on the ears. Much of the film was shot around the finest châteaux-Chenonceaux, Chambord, Maintenon, Fontainebleau-and the graces of French stone and green have lent a coquetry and lightness to these scenes that the art and costume people have tastefully maintained...
Double or Bust. The program, although Government-directed, was made possible only with the cooperation of 1,000 companies. They have lent nearly $900,000 worth of products, sent top executives off to teach businessmen overseas how to sell to the U.S. Reflecting support from all segments of the economy, the U.S. next month at New Delhi will show the biggest atoms-for-peace exhibit ever assembled, in November will spread a model farm over 175 acres outside Addis Ababa...
Over the weekend, before the business sessions resumed, there were many attempts to restore cordiality. Adenauer invited all the Russian leaders out to the dacha they had lent him outside Moscow. The Russians gave a special performance of Romeo and Juliet, starring the great ballerina Ulanova, at the Bolshoi Theater. The ballet closes with the elders, Montague and Capulet, clasping hands in reconciliation. In the special box, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer rose and grasped the hands of Premier Bulganin and held them high. The audience burst into applause. Next day there was a festive lunch at which Khrushchev...