Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cashing in on a life-time of political favors owed him in liberal circles. As a UAW legal counsel, he enjoyed excellent relations with labor and soon secured formal endorsement from all UAW and IUE members who were Democratic delegates. Even the officially non-partisan AFL-CIO lent moral support in the back room...
...Actually, she only lent it out to her granddaughter after exacting the promise that it would be returned...
...couple of years ago, Star Koerner was a 33-year-old Chicago bachelor with a prosperous life-insurance business and a weakness for sports cars. One day a friend who was going out of town lent him his little lightweight Japanese motorcycle. "The first two nights I had it," says Koerner, "about 18 girls asked me to take them for a ride. I said to myself, 'My God, I've got to have one of these.' " Since then he has acquired not one but three and not at all incidentally a wife. The Koerners belong...
...rabble-rousing Jesse Gray's "rent strike." All told, Gray claimed that 4,500 tenants from 325 buildings refused to pay their rent because their landlords had failed to rout the rats, drain the swampy basements and plug the holes in the walls and ceilings. Mayor Wagner lent his support by ordering a new drive against "slumlords," but the Buildings Department, with a backlog of 250,000 complaints, is still snowed under...
Occasional Winks. Chase took the boycott in stride-and so have most of the firms that have been banned from the 40 million-customer Arab market. The 40 firms owned by British Tycoon Charles Clore were barred last year when Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson lent Jerusalem $2,000,000 to build a new town hall, and the U.S.'s Witco Chemical was blacklisted after it bought a chemical firm that had an executive who owned a piece of an Israeli oil company. The Arabs offer reinstatement to firms that stop their dealings with Israel, but the Israelis have...