Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chose Agilulf, the Duke of Turin, her late husband's brother-in-law. For his coronation as King of the Lombards, Pope Gregory the Great lent the sacred Iron Crown, which supposedly bore a nail from the Cross. The Pope had good reason, so the legend goes, to show Theodolinda this special favor. A fervent Roman Catholic, she persuaded her husband and most of his subjects to abandon the Arian heresy. For the first time in decades, a religious peace settled over the Lombards, and crime virtually disappeared...
...busy week, Jacqueline Kennedy designated the nation's first curator of White House curios, also called on a woman with personal knowledge of the subject-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 88. The appointment of Mrs. John N. Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach, where Jackie lent especial cachet to a dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip was marred by reports...
...unpublicized talk with Khrushchev. The following month Ho sided with Moscow in its doctrinal dispute with Peking, and last December the payoff came. Russia promised to ship 43 industrial enterprises to Viet Nam by 1965, including power stations, fertilizer factories and machine-tool factories. In addition, Moscow lent Hanoi $480 million in rubles...
...shopping. Trans World Airlines finally got a new president and chief executive officer. He is Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., 50, former vice president of Bendix Corp., and a friend of onetime Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, who joined the TWA board as a representative of the creditors who lent the line $165 million for new jets...
...Lent, the mood is lyrical, produced with spontaneity and comparative ease...