Word: lent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fight!" fliers at the rally to protest the administration's takeover of Phillips Brooks House (PBH). So it must have been an act of reciprocity, if not solidarity, that PBH showed up to support the divestment movement. Shoshans L.H. Weiner '98, chair of PBH's Committee on Housing Rights, lent her organization's support and promised that of "the most important part of Harvard, the students...
Throughout the 1980s, Kahane and Kach continually stirred up trouble, and Kahane's election to the Knesset halfway through the decade lent an air of legitimacy to his confrontational, violent tactics. After he had served one term, though, Israel passed legislation outlawing Kach in particular and making it extremely difficult for hate groups to sit in parliament...
Giving Arafat the credentials and stature that he enjoyed during his stay at Harvard has done for him what no other organization in the world, and no public policy coups on the part of the PLO could ever have achieved--it has lent legitimacy to a man who should have been relegated to infamy and tried for his crimes against humanity before the World Court at The Hague long...
...promise for sorting out truly worldwide issues, at least. In this view, the U.N. as policeman is suited for the job of global traffic cop, not crimebuster. Even though it acted with resolve 35 years ago in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), and though its authority lent crucial coloration to the American-led defense of South Korea in the 1950s and the ejection of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait as this decade opened, the list of disputes negotiated with only a walk-on part, if any, for the supposed supercop is impressive: a historic handshake across the Rhine...
...historian Angelica Zander Rudenstine, is quite simply one of the best shows MOMA has ever held--a worthy successor to its surveys of the two other 20th century titans, Picasso and Matisse. In its New York form, the exhibition includes paintings that, owing to their fragility, couldn't be lent to earlier venues in Washington and Holland--Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43, and Victory Boogie Woogie, left unfinished at his death...