Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report on military justice, released last week by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, charged that there was a definite pattern of discrimination against blacks in the meting out of punishment. The report gave substance to black sailors' claims that recent riots have been fueled by discrimination; it also lent credence to recent statements by Elmo Zumwalt, chief of naval operations, who has attributed such insurrections to the fact that the Navy's "middle management" has not carried out his myriad programs to ease racial tension, rather than to any lack of discipline that could be traced...
...also interrupted by a policeman who asked them what they were doing in the middle of town at 3:30 a.m. "We're covering the Yale game for a newspaper. We're expecting a phone call with some information we need on the story." The policeman was satisfied, and lent one of the surreptitious scribes a cigarette...
Scott had friends, however. One lent him $200,000 for a last-minute media blitz. Scott challenged Spong to say which presidential candidate he backed; Spong was damaged politically when a newsman reported having heard him tell some students that he was for Senator McGovern...
...well-dressed or well-fed. Many of the children, even some of those being marched in school groups on the road itself, were without shoes, and their clothes were often shabby and patched. They looked, on the whole, distinctly thin. The adults mostly wore plain, sleeveless white shirts, which lent an air of brightness to the city that it badly needed...
Steiner's visible connections with crisis and discipline have lent credence to the theory that he is a Mass Hall hardliner. He is seen in some quarters as a cool manipulator, a wily maximizer who tirelessly and relentlessly spends his time ferreting out student disrupters. Let Derek Bok make the high-minded speeches--Daniel Steiner is behind him wielding the hatchet...