Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This view is lent plausibility by the lack of evidence of Russian belligerency and above all by the frequency with which Nixon has distorted the truth and lied outright in the past. These deceptions range from his tales of respect for Cambodian neutrality when his bombers had been killing Cambodians for two years to his misrepresentations of Elliot Richardson's and Thomas Jefferson's political positions during his press conference last week. Henry Kissinger is of course correct in saying that questions about the motives behind the alert are symptomatic of what's happening to the United States...
...BACH was only part of the Evensong's music. One of the anthems was Maurice Greene's Lord, let me know mine end. The Greene was almost funereal in quality and was lent a somber cast by the walking bass throughout the movement. The exceptional quality of the Choir's string accompanists was evident in their first entrance: they were even in their attack and in tune without the dead quality that comes from intonation obsession. The soprano soloists were well-matched and in good balance with the rest of the ensemble...
...bank has been under federal supervision since spring, when the Comptroller forced Smith to step down as chairman. Reason: the bank had lent more than the legally permissible 10% of its assets to companies controlled by a single individual: C. Arnholt Smith. Smith's enterprises turned out to be the bank's biggest credit risk; his companies' bad debts constituted an unspecified but large percentage of the $143 million in outright losses and possibly uncollectible loans that U.S. National had on its books...
Getting this gargantuan figure there on the page is Pritchett's task as a biographer, and in many ways he succeeds. He has a shrewd sense of the whole Balzac family, particularly the author's adoring mother and sister who alternately lent him money foolishly, connived with him against creditors and betrayed him to competing women...
...failure of students to return tools lent to them...