Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarreling among members of the chronically troubled alliance seemed inevitable, U.S. planners were encouraged by advance pledges of support from British Prime Minister James Callaghan, who will be one of twelve heads of government attending. By ironic coincidence, the meeting's chairman will be Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit, who is one of the alliance's more disaffected members as the result of a congressionally imposed arms embargo. However, he is expected to play his cards skillfully in the hope that Carter will be successful in his effort to persuade Congress to lift the 3½-year...
...time and beer cans this morning are too young to remember much of the 1960s. "That age was a bit early for me, so I didn't really know how to dress for this," confesses Mark Kaplan, 23, out of Atlanta, who adds that a more knowledgeable friend lent him the striped Indian cotton shirt he is wearing. A lady companion confesses further: "We're really just waiting for the tennis court we've reserved...
...March of 1977. Instead, the report states, the same month the party was outlawed, U.S. banks loaned him $51 million. In January, 1978, Pinochet exiled 12 Christian Democrats for participating in illegal political activities and the same month, the report indicates, "the bank consortium headed by Wells Fargo lent the government $125 million and Exxon purchased approximately $100 million worth of shares of the La Disputada (copper) mines...
...mark the event, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art has put on a sumptuous show titled "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism." It contains 81 paintings-a third of them lent by the Musée Marmottan in Paris, all of them images from the garden. We see, lined up, the different versions of each motif that Monet so obsessively worked at, in every possible variation of light, laboring to divide nuances into further nuances and stabilize their intervals with the devotion of a particle physicist: the poplars, the haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor...
...Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas, between 1974 and 1977. His First Bank of Macon County (Ala.) gave an unsecured $31,200 loan to the Atlanta-based Institutional Development Corp., which aids disadvantaged youths and has the strong backing of First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The same bank lent $32,400 to Robert Stapleton-husband of Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth-for the purchase of an evangelistic retreat in Denton, Texas...