Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conceivably, Dostoyevsky might have been intrigued by the circumstances of the wedding itself, which, as Greek newspapers reported with some acidity, was "short, simple and cheap." It cost $2.15. The couple pulled up to a Moscow "wedding palace" in a battered, lemon-yellow Chevy Nova lent by a Greek diplomat. As a piano and string quartet played Mendelssohn's Wedding March, they entered a dark-paneled chamber. The bride and groom promised Klara Remeshkova, the equivalent of a justice of the peace, that they would preserve their love for all their lives, be faithful and loyal and stand together...
There are other abuses in special pleading. Some Senators have willingly lent their names and their office letterheads to big mail campaigns, conveying the false impression that the pleas are endorsed by the Senate. A House subcommittee headed by New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal has discovered that hundreds of corporations have been deducting their grass-roots lobbying efforts as a business expense despite clear congressional and IRS declarations that they may not do so. A few lobbyists seem to be in an unreasonable rush to cash in on the money available in the business. Two former aides of Senator Ribicoff...
...ship-chartering agency. There, say Onassis company sources, he met Christina over a business lunch at which she was initiating a deal to lease oil tankers to the Soviets. She drove Kauzov home in her limousine. More personal rendezvous followed, first at Russian restaurants in Paris, later at, apartments lent to them by friends...
...There are problems within the alliance," declared Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit, the honorary president of NATO. His audience consisted of the allied heads of government who gathered for a summit-conference dinner in the White House Rose Garden last week (see NATION). Indeed, there are problems, and none is more immediately troublesome to NATO strategists than the four-year-old rift between Ecevit's own country and neighboring Greece. Reflecting the ragged edge of the alliance's southeastern flank, NATO forces recently completed a maneuver code-named Dawn Patrol. Both Greek and Turkish warships participated?but never...
...girls come from 45 states and 14 foreign countries. About 6% of the students are black or Hispanic; there are also students like the coal miner's daughter who was unable to sleep in her dormitory bed because she was used to sleeping on the floor (the school lent her a sleeping...