Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Clasby, working at safety man, apparently had injured himself in lunging for a pass. He stumbled and rolled over. The coaching staff maintained its composure as it walked over to the fallen Clasby, but the sight of a doctor, a trainer, two coaches and a manager converging lent gravity to the scene...
...paid for his courage. After eleven years in Nazi concentration camps, Schumacher was a walking skeleton, his heart weakened, his eyesight half gone. Suffering lent him stature and magnified his will. To this gaunt, bitter man with the eyes of a Savonarola and a voice not unlike Hitler's, German Socialists rallied in the postwar gloom...
...rest. Friend of writers and critics like Cyril (Enemies of Promise) Connolly and Peter Quennell, able to talk to them in their own jargon, yet without convincing anyone of her profundity. As flip, smartly turned out professional journalist, got to know Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton (who lent her a cottage on his Wiltshire grounds). Although needing no introduction to high society, she was befriended by the Duff Coopers, Lord David Cecil and Lord Salisbury, good friend of Eden...
Late last month Winchell got his chance: Chandler's was named as one of 13 New York restaurants which the OPS accused of violating price ceilings. Hearst's Journal-American TV Columnist Jack O'Brian lent Colleague Winchell a helping hand with thinly disguised items about a certain "fishface" disk jockey, whom he accused of every crime from welshing on his debts to collecting graft to finance a trip to Europe...
This cursed fellow grabbed into his hand The box of poison and away he ran Into a neighboring street, and found a man Who lent him three large bottles. He withdrew And deftly poured the poison into two. He kept the third one clean, as well he might, For his own drink, meaning to work all night Stacking the gold and carrying it away...