Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Order in the Court. As the testimony wore on, formality lent the proceedings the curious improbability of a bad horror play. But twice there were real and savage scenes. A Chinese woman, who had seen her baby bayoneted, stared at Yamashita from the stand, cried: "That Jap is to blame. He's got to be killed to pay for what he's done!" A slim Filipino girl halted her testimony, cried in a low, tense voice: "You still have the face to look at me, Yamashita. If I could only get near you. You ought...
...Collaborator. In Detroit, Esther Schlum complained to police that a paratrooper just back from Europe lent her his auto for a shopping trip, punished her for returning it at 5:30 a.m. by grabbing a pair of shears, cutting off her hair, explaining that this was the way they did things in France...
...Beloved brethren: A little girl of our diocese, Pierrette Regimbal of Val D'Or, has for a few weeks past drawn upon her and retained the attention of the public. Thousands of persons . . . have lent a credulous ear to . . . strange reports on the child's pretensions. . . . People have cried 'miracle'. . . . Comparisons have gone so far as to compare the girl to Bernadette of Lourdes. . . . We esteem that [this] was, in truth, according her too great an honor...
...earthquake in 1906, he opened a new bank in a waterfront shed, expanded by lending to businessmen who had been wiped out. A pioneer in branch banking, he now has California blanketed with 491 Bank of America branches. He became Hollywood's banker, has so far lent the movie industry...
...outlook for European travel brightened last week. The American Express Co., which for 30 years has shepherded U.S. citizens in & out of the cities and art galleries of Europe, announced that it now has 17 European offices operating again. More important, the U.S. State Department lent a hand to U.S. businessmen, Paris-bound on business...