Word: lent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expression that great prizes often come in small packages befits the exhibit of paintings from the Joseph B. Hazel Collection at the Fogg Museum of Art. The exhibit shows nearly a dozen gems all contained within one room, sandwiched between galleries of French Romanticism and American Realism. Hazel lent 16 works to the Fogg, but because of a lack of space and the paintings' sensitivity to light, not all of them are displayed. However, these few works can be viewed by appointment...
Less than a month ago, the news from the government-controlled enclave of Bihac had lent hope to the diplomats trying to negotiate an end to the 31- month-old war. After a period of training and refitting with weapons smuggled in from Croatia, a reinvigorated Bosnian army conducted sharp, sustained attacks and was driving the rebel Serbs back from the Bihac area and several towns in central Bosnia. Even Yasushi Akashi, the U.N.'s very cautious representative in the former Yugoslavia, speculated that the Bosnian Serbs' unexpected losses of territory might push them to return to the negotiating table...
...Kenny's are insipid. As Steely Dan, the pair combined the ! subversiveness of rock with the cool swing of jazz, yielding seven hit albums and sleek, acerbic singles like Hey Nineteen, about a 30ish Lothario and his drug-loving teenage girlfriend. Becker, whose stringy hair and Fu Manchu lent him a certain wanted-poster chic, and Fagen, in ever present sunglasses, nurtured their legend by seldom performing live, avoiding interviews and generally wrapping themselves in mystique...
...public heaved an enormous sigh of relief at the relative smoothness of the operation, many found the manner and the content of the deal that had forestalled an invasion distasteful. To get out of a jam, the current President had lent his authority to a failed former President. The terms of Jimmy Carter's arrangement to remove Haiti's brutal junta were so much less than Clinton had promised only days before. The agreement did not require the dictators to leave Haiti after their retirement, and they did not even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled...
...WHRB lent its dial frequency to WUMB of the University of Massachusetts at Boston for the duration of their summer hiatus, says Jeremy A. Rassen '95, comp director and former chief engineer for WHRB...