Word: lente
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Cleaver took another sip of red wine. He only drinks red wine, he said. All this red wine and soft talking lent to the image of the new Eldridge Cleaver, who is really quite a relaxed guy. Not at all what you'd expect of a former convict, rapist, Black Panther Minister of Information, best-selling author of Soul...
...Wife Gayle, 24, live a few miles away in tiny Essex, Mass. (pop. 2,899). When not immersed in the intensive summer Hebrew course he takes three nights a week, Mike is usually to be found studying at home, playing tennis with Gayle or tending the small garden plot lent them by a neighbor. Gayle, whose father is a junior high school principal in Catonsville, Md., met Mike when they were students at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. They both worship in an Episcopal church, and Mike is preparing himself for the Christian youth work he one day hopes...
...eventually he would. And though he was still a member of the Mafia's nationwide high "Commission," the Chicago local had some months before excluded him from all its activities, believing that the investigations he had inspired had crimped Mob business in Chicago. The gang-slaying theory was lent credence by a shadowy report that on hearing of the shooting, the Mafia's Boss of Bosses, New York's Carlo Gambino, promptly passed word that Giancana's killer was to be executed-again a frequent Mafia precaution after a major...
...action suggested to the Greek and Cypriot governments that the United States was following a balanced policy. It was a way of contriving to contain the refugees until Ankara had imposed its notion of social equity on the island, at which point Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 lent tacit approval to the invasion by announcing that "the Turkish Government considers the demarcation line negotiable...." He skirted the essential problem of an illegal military venture and accepted partition...
...into a great private collection along the legendary pattern of the Morgan or the Frick. It ranges from Renaissance pottery and medieval acquamanilia (water vessels) to Rembrandts, El Grecos and an astounding collection of more than 1,000 14th-19th century drawings. Parts of this hoard were occasionally lent to institutions like the Orangerie in Paris, but nobody had regular access to it except Lehman's friends and a small circle of approved art historians. Lehman's eye for painting after 1860 was poor, and his collection has its foibles-one being an appetite for fluffy-bunny boudoir...