Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massive weapons stockpiling lent a new urgency, and a growing sense of futility, to President Elias Sarkis' search for an end to the bloodshed. Since 1973, when clashes between Palestinian guerrillas and the Christian-dominated Lebanese army presaged a bloody civil war, at least 37,000 - and perhaps as many as 100,000 - people have been killed. Moreover, a new attack on its Christian friends could provoke Israel into massive retaliatory raids, threatening the peace talks with Egypt that began last week...
...this reticence? "It's more fun like this, to play a guessing game," said Freddy Plimpton. Other alleged participants may be motivated by fear of possible Times retaliation. Said one of the four or five Times employees who lent assistance: "I've been on strike for two months, I have ten kids, my mortgage payments are overdue...
Trouble is, Social Security does not add to the nation's savings, which might be lent out to build factories, expand old plants, allow new businesses to start and create wealth...
Like the Pakistanis, the Turks feel betrayed by the U.S. They provoked the wrath and sanctions of the U.S. Congress by using American weapons to invade Cyprus in 1974. The embargo was partly lifted this summer, but the government of Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara believes with some justification that the strength of the Greek-American lobby in the U.S. has tilted Washington's policy permanently against Turkey. As for the Shah, he has called CENTO "a nice club," although these days it is not all that nice and not all that clubby...
...delivers wat^r by truck to each home once or twice a week. Broussard's wife developed a serious kidney ailment eight years ago, probably from drinking cistern-stored water. Two or three times a week he had to drive her to Charity Hospital in New Orleans. "They lent me a dialysis machine, but I had no water to hook it up. It had to run off my old wooden cistern. Each night I would ride to Lake Hermitage [now Lake Judge Perez] to get water to keep it running. The doctors at Charity tried to get parish officials...