Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...militant black nationalists in Zimbabwe and their supporters in the surrounding front-line states are convinced that violence is the only way to overthrow colonialism and avoid big business manipulation. Indeed, the intransigence of leaders like Ian Smith in Zimbabwe and John Vorster in South Africa have lent their argument increasing credence. Young himself says he is well aware of Smith's current inhuman and self-serving strategy: draw the Soviets and Cubans into battle on behalf of the Zimbabwean nationalists in the hope that this will provoke anti-communist sentiments in the U.S. and force the Carter administration...
...biggest thorn in the Harvard team's side--which insists it is not a Radcliffe group--was the continued absence of star swimmer Maura Costin. Costin, suffering from the back and shoulder problems that kept her in the hospital over intersession, lent moral support from the sidelines, but could not lend physical support in the pool...
TIME has kindly lent me this space so I can thank the many thousands of you who were so kind to write to me after the Olympic Games in Montreal [Aug. 2]. Since it is really very difficult to answer personally so many letters, let me tell you here how grateful I am to you all for your friendship...
Management discontent and investor distrust came together over the New Year's weekend. Jarman's immediate subordinates, Chief Operations Officer Ralph Bowles and Chief Administrative Officer Larry Shelton, both board members, met with four outside directors -including two associated with institutions that have lent money to Genesco -at the Nashville home of Director David K. Wilson on Sunday night, Jan. 2. The six issued a call to the full board to meet in special session the next day at Genesco's Nashville headquarters. In a session that lasted more than ten hours, the board voted to strip...
...Halleluia! This premature Lent musci is succeeded by a frothy, exuberant and brilliant Mardi-Gras "Carnival." Clapton finally gets a move on. Though the song palls after the umpteenth kaleidoscope whirl around the muscial merry-go-round you hope again that next time, on the next track, you'll win a real prize...