Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malcolm Little came to Boston from Mason, Michigan, in 1941 to live with his aunt in Roxbury. Within a few months he had picked up the adornments that lent to ghetto negroes a kind of status he had never known in Michigan. He wore blue or shiny grey zoot suits, burned his long red hair straight by a process called "conking", peddled reefers and dope, and slept with a white woman. Later in Harlem his reputation as a hustler grew. He played and then worked the numbers racket, pimped for male and female prostitutes, sold and took dope in increasing...
Changes of Mood. General Motors' troubles and Wall Street's gyrations crystalized a distinct change of mood on the part of the American people. For 62 fat months, prosperity has fed itself because Americans have spent, lent, borrowed and invested with confidence. They have felt correctly that jobs, production, profits and paychecks would continue to go up and up. Now, uncertainty has replaced confidence with disconcerting suddenness, giving rise to a number of disturbing questions. Is the boom over? Is the long postwar bull market finished? Does the nation face recession, or inflation, or perhaps both...
...produced enough evidence to show that the two men were insane and might have saved them from hanging. But he did not bother to search out a psychiatrist to testify for the defense. In fact, Tynan suggested, Capote was probably just as happy to see them hang. Their death lent an artistic climax to his story; moreover, if they had lived, they might have refused to let the book be published...
Dubinsky used the strike sparingly, and under him the I.L.G.W.U. amassed a knippe-Yiddish for nest egg-worth $571 million, invested in everything from union buildings to a 1,000-acre vacation resort for members in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains; the I.L.G.W.U. has even lent the Rockefellers funds for a housing project in Puerto Rico. Dubinsky's hand-picked successor is the union's secretary-treasurer: quietly efficient Louis Stulberg, 64, a Polish-born ex-cutter, whose main job has been overseeing the union's business empire...
...could also be generous. As she never lacked for money (her brother became president of the Pennsylvania Railroad), she quietly lent much of it to Paris Dealer Durand-Ruel to help back the impressionists and sold Pissarro (of whom she said "he could have taught stones to draw correctly") at her tea parties. She was largely responsible for the Havemeyer collection, which stocked New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with many of its great El Grecos, Manets, Courbets and Corots...