Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention to a book, purportedly written by Matusow, entitled False Witness. This court finds the fact to be that as early as Sept. 21, 1954, responsible officials of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers . . . subsidized the writing and publication of this book ... I find that Matusow willfully . . . lent himself to this evil scheme for money and for notoriety...
...policy amounts to appeasement of "coolies" (Indians) and "monkeys" (Africans). They blame their trouble on the faraway British Colonial Office, which they regard as a "nigger-loving" annex of the London School of Economics. Some of Minister Blundell's neighbors openly call him a traitor, because he lent his considerable prestige to a series of reforms that admitted one African and two Indians to the governor's cabinet. But when the question was put to the white settlers at Nakuru last week, Blundell got his vote...
...Officers of the U.S. Army's 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion, stationed near London, have decided to award a plaque bearing a painted devil to the company with the poorest record of church attendance during Lent, with orders that it be displayed prominently for two weeks. "We want to instill the fear of the Lord in all our troops," said the chaplain...
...agent, says Perlberg, and told him: "If I can't do this picture, I'll get on the train and never come back. I'll quit the picture business. I'll never make another film." Actress Kelly had her way. M-G-M lent her out to Paramount again, but this time jumped the price from the $20,000 charged for Toko-Ri to $50,000, and demanded that she give M-G-M an extra picture (her contract calls for only three a year...
...earned the title when she survived the Titanic sinking and even lent a hand at the lifeboat oars...