Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unelected President whose performance in office was approved by only 36% of the population in the Harris survey taken in January, the first primary provided sharp injections of added confidence. Carter's solid if unspectacular 30% of the Democratic vote, in a field of five major candidates, lent new weight to his dogged optimism. After three impressive showings in the first five nonprimary, caucus states (he placed first in Iowa, Maine and Oklahoma), his is the only campaign that holds real possibilities of breaking far ahead of the pack...
...general context. There is no such thing as instant peace. It could also apply to the United Nations Charter or the Shanghai communiqué or any international document." Nonetheless, coming in the midst of specifically anti-détente remarks by the Chinese, Nixon's statement lent itself to the interpretation that it was a slap at Ford's policy-and thus precisely fitted Peking's mood...
Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher, a guard for the Classics, said his squad had missed their Wednesday night training meal at Fathers Six. The Classics also lacked the services of injured high scorers Kevin McLaughlin and Pete Durgerian, who nonetheless lent moral support playing his harmonica...
...EDITORS OF The New York Times and any other newspaper that printed the Pentagon Papers, anyone who has ever picketed a federal building to protest the Viet Nam War, and all those who have lent others novels with obscenities in them have something in common. They all would have been put in jail if Senate Bill One, a revision of the federal criminal code, now being debated on the Senate floor, were on the books...
Last week's statistics lent weight to the President's position. In the final quarter of 1975, the gross national product rose at a rate of 4.9%, its third consecutive quarterly increase; and inflation climbed at a 6.8% rate, down .3% from the preceding quarter. The New York Stock Exchange last week set a one-day trading record of 44,510,000 shares, and the Dow Jones industrial average surged 26.85 points in two days, to 987.80-its highest level in three years...