Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rose Kennedy has been underestimated. It was her husband, everyone assumed, who lent fire to the love of country and fierce pursuit of power that have characterized their children. Yet, as each succeeding tragedy has struck her family, Rose has steadily emerged as the strongest character of the Kennedy clan. That is fitting enough for the mother of a President and the only woman in U.S. history to send three sons to the Senate...
Certainly, the fact that there was an obvious choice for dean lent a perfunctory air to the rigmarole of the selection process and diminished the importance of the Governance Committee's work as a gauge of administrative responsiveness. But it is hard to discount the fact that Bok met with the committee for nearly six hours before making a final decision on the dean; by doing so, he made it hard to summarily dismiss Pusey's (Bok's) first formal solicitation of student views about the selection of a University dean as mere tokenism...
...there was an ingrained fatalism in Kissinger-a feeling "that ultimately failure is one of the likely outcomes of any form of action," as his close colleague Stanley Hoffmann put it-which lent Kissinger's personality a soft spot not ordinarily found in such stern, arrogant men. "He has a human quality I value very much," a colleague at the Center for International Affaris said recently. "There's a deep melancholy about him, and a sense that you're dealing with a guy who has known unlimited tragedy and seen some of the bleakest parts of the human landscape...
Prince Philip, who passed through just before Easter, sized up the situation succinctly: "Obviously, you've all given up something for Lent." In Royal Air Force parlance, Gan is an "unaccompanied post"-the only one in the R.A.F.-and that means unaccompanied by wives or girl friends, because there is no room for them on the island. There are 650 men on Gan, but only one female, an Irish matron sent out by the Women's Royal Volunteer Service "to give the lads someone to tell their problems to." They would burn her ears off if they...
...Prince Charles is atop Christine Keeler, and he's riding her hard," rasped the public address system. The crowd cheered. This Christine Keeler was a polo pony, of course, lent to the Prince of Wales for a few chukkers with the Nairobi Polo Club on his tour of Kenya with Sister Princess Anne. Later, Charles bestowed his first accolade. With the traditional ceremonial sword of the Princes of Wales he dubbed William Duffus, President of the Appeal Court of East Africa, on both shoulders, pronouncing him "Sir William," and motioned him to rise. Then, the ceremony of knighthood being...