Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francis of Assisi made the first crèche-or so his loyal biographer, St. Bonaventura, says-and it was a double success. The tableau lent a drama to the saint's sermon on Christmas Eve in 1223, and the hay later "proved a marvellous remedy for sick beasts and a prophylactic against divers other plagues.'' Since then, thousands and thousands of creches have been made, some commissioned by great lords, some modeled after master paintings, some encrusted with jewels, and some even designed to be wound up and set moving. But the most appealing creches...
...officials has neither answered these questions nor prevented them from being raised again and again the future. Nor has the government's response: largely confined to denouncing the foreign press. Instead of taking note of the public out-cry against the jailing of Rudolf Augstein, Bonn has lent its tacit support to Herr Strauss' highly successful Christian Social Union campaign strategy in the Bavarian Landelection--calling those asking for his resignation Communists...
...hated by many Southerners, who took their revenge in what became known as Eleanor stories. She urged TVA-like projects for the Missouri and Mississippi River valleys. She sought wages-and-hours legislation for farm hands and household servants, and in days when such things seemed to matter less, lent her prestigious name, sometimes indiscriminately, to many causes...
...Roosevelt even lent her stature to a series of television commercials which gave her an opportunity to plead for food for the world's hungry peoples...
Since 1945, a number of trends have combined to force undergraduate education away from the broad conception of the Redbook and toward a narrower, more functional conception. The rapid rise in admissions, and in the number of students graduating with honors and going on to graduate school, has lent strength to a point of view which regards Harvard College less as a general preparation for life than a way station on the road to still higher education...