Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspected one patient was planning to kill himself.) Still worse, she found herself confronted by a crazy-house con game that she dubs "reciprocal exploitation." Anybody who had money or goods was expected to share them. Could she then refuse demands for cigarettes, money or meals? Ultimately, she lent occasional cigarettes and took patients to restaurants on the grounds that meals provided interview time...
...even that show of Turkish government force was enough to quell thousands of Muslim rioters who rampaged for four days through Maraş, killing 102 people and injuring nearly 1,000. Additional armored vehicles and paratroops had to be moved in. Finally, an exhausted Premier Bülent Ecevit declared martial law in 13 provinces where clashes also had occurred. Said Ecevit of the draconian measure: "I hope that in a short time we will no longer need...
Such tensions might have destroyed him. Instead, they lent rare power to his fiction. He learned to see two distinct ways of life. One belonged to the smug, narrow, easily shocked circle populated by his mother and her friends. The other possessed his imagination: total friendship, passionate, uninhibited and free, with a like spirit. Artistically, Forster did not want to choose, to become simply a novelist of manners or a poet of pleasures. The motto of his fourth novel, Howards End (1910), captured both the dilemma and the hope: "Only connect...
...Billy is very subtly implied, and the need to make it explicit does not seem an obvious one. The discerning viewer will draw the appropriate inference; in any case, the importance of their relationship does not lie in the sexual act, but in the life-giving emotional support Erich lent Billy when he most needed...
What has Somoza done for Washington in exchange? Aside from repressing any domestic movement for popular power, the Somozas have had a strong regional anti-communist consciousness. In 1954, for example, the elder Somoza lent his private estate for CIA training of right-wing Guatemalan exiles led by Castillo Armas, and allowed U.S. bombers supporting the exiles to take off from Nicaragua. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Somozas began to develop tighter relations with right-wing Cuban exiles who, with the CIA, were plotting to overthrow the Castro government. In 1961, the Somozas' private lands were used...