Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebels wandered in slowly, a dozen of them, rifles swinging from their shoulders like coolie poles. Some had British-made grenades slung from their belts. All were barefoot, but a few wore red headbands that lent their otherwise raggle-taggle appearance a sort of rakish ferocity. Their leader - a slight young man with a goatee and darting eyes - identified himself as Usham Ambihal, 28, a former coconut-farm laborer...
...Sadat lent credence to this theory by quickly reshuffling his Cabinet and lecturing it on the need for efficiency. He gave all his ministers until May to introduce some fundamental reforms in their departments. Enlarging the Cabinet from 31 to 37 members, he added two generals in an effort to apply some military efficiency to civilian affairs. He also named four Deputy Premiers who will serve as heads of superagencies. One is Abdel Aziz Hegazi, a tough financial expert and advocate of austerity, who will oversee the treasury and economics. Another is Mohammed Abdel Kader Hatem, who will control culture...
...spends millions of dollars to buy the allegiance of countries in sub-Sahara Africa, particularly those with large Moslem populations; in the past year, at least partly because of Gaddafi's largesse, Uganda, Mali, Chad, Niger and Congo-Brazzaville have all broken diplomatic relations with Israel. Gaddafi even lent $3,000,000 to the U.S. Black Muslims, but he refused further loans because he decided that the group was not truly Islamic. He receives dozens of appeals for foreign aid each year, says Gaddafi, and he judges them all on two criteria: Will the loan help Islam, and will...
...humanists and others who believe that both man and society are perfectible, Lévi-Strauss extends small comfort. "Humanism has failed," he believes. "It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all other manifestations of nature." He is gloomy about the population explosion, the pollution of air and water and "the destruction of living species, one after another." Like many another student of past societies, he admires those primitive cultures that struck a balance between man and his natural environment...
SEVEN WOMEN WERE murdered in the Boston area between July and December 1972, and facts and speculation about their deaths have lent themselves to a type of journalism that is sensational and paternalistic...