Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney's judgment has never been noticeably clouded by the hobgoblin of little minds. He strongly endorsed the war in July 1965 (before he first visited Viet Nam); he lent qualified support to the Administration's policy at Hartford last spring (17 months after his return from Saigon); and, most recently, he unequivocally denounced the U.S. commitment as a "tragic" mistake. Last week, during a Labor Day interview on Detroit's WKBD-TV, Commentator Lou Gordon wanted to know how Romney squared his current conviction that the U.S. should never have got involved in Asia with...
...partners and good friends was Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who now heads the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front. That friendship lent some credence in voters' minds to Dzu's claim to be able to negotiate with the Communists. Another law partner was Mme. Nhu's brother, Tran Van Khiem. It was a profitable alliance for both men since the Diem family connections gave them an inside track with judges and the police. Along the way, Dzu visited the U.S. and became such a fervent Rotary Club member that he served a stint...
...dimension be side the woods and water. Indeed, Giacometti's worn but stately woman seems plainly made to stroll among the maples in the moonlight. Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, widow of the Milwaukee indus trialist, missed Gerhard Marcks's Bremen Town Musicians so much after she lent it to the Milwaukee Art Center that she took it back again, keeps it illuminated at night so she can observe it while dining...
...court. One government official admitted lending Villegas 30,000 pesos ($7,700) without interest because he was the mayor's compadre. An assistant declared he had given Villegas loans without collateral because he regarded the boss as "my own son." A wealthy Manila businessman testified that he had lent Villegas' wife 15,000 pesos because the mayor "was like a brother to me." With that, Villegas denounced the investigation as an invasion of his family's privacy. The case was dismissed on a technicality, and Villegas is still mayor...
...Their conclusion that this image was indeed not valid lent comfort to those who choose to believe the Warren Commission's findings, and at the same time confused many persons into believing that Itek had examined and refuted the validity of the much more compelling human-like images discussed in your June 2 article...