Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which, plus the hardships of standing in line for the no-reservations Skytrain, lent an air of start-of-an-era pioneering adventure to Laker's inaugural takeoffs, as TIME Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety discovered when she boarded the first New York-London Skytrain...
Last week, when the Crimson squared off against UMass, you gave us a real loser. Drizzly, cold and I had previously lent out my umbrella. Aachoo...
...loans and believe the sequence was coincidental." Added a New York banker: "The use of compensating balances to buy favors for yourself is a rotten practice but very common"-and one that is frequently employed by businessmen as well as bankers. In a typical case, a New York bank lent $125,000 to a company's treasurer, accepting stock worth almost $70 a share as collateral...
...most aggressive states is Illinois. Its film board has attracted six major productions this year, including The Fury, a Fox $6 million spy thriller starring Kirk Douglas. Governor James Thompson lent a state helicopter to the crew to scout locations, waived permits to allow equipment to be hauled across state lines and persuaded the owners of a Lake Forest estate to allow filming in their home. When Director Robert Altman was filming A Wedding, for 20th Century-Fox distribution (the movie stars Mia Farrow and Geraldine Chaplin), Thompson declared a Robert Altman Week and held a big bash...
...Said Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys: "His music was a great inspiration to us. His personality was a great inspiration to us. He was a fine gentleman." Meanwhile, radio stations canceled regular programming and even commercials to play lengthy homage to the fallen king. In Boston a fan lent his own Presley collection to fill the gaps in one station's library. Outside the Las Vegas Hilton, the flag was lowered to half-mast. Instant cottage industries in Elvis T-shirts blossomed. Stores everywhere sold out of Presley records, as if one spin on the turntable would keep...