Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over again--in reports and conversations--he emphasizes their importance. He lobbied intensively and successfully this year for a University subsidy for Phillips Brooks House. When two civil rights activists came to him several years ago to seek help for a weekly Negro newspaper--the Southern Courier--he lent his support and supplied money from a special College fund for civil rights. He has done the same for other students...
...homosexual Chambers could have been telling the truth, so a calm, likeable, industrious Hiss could have been lying. Zeligs gives no credence at all to his incongruous but hardly indefensible possibility. Nor does he explore a number of other, more speculative theories about the Hiss case which might have lent themselves to psychoanalytic study. Several people suspected either Hiss's wife or stepson of being involved in the passing of documents to Chambers, but Zeligs, after mentioning these hypotheses, subtly changes the subject without ever testing them...
...which the Institute looked at the invitation was different. Institute officials still insisted that they were not running a "speaker's bureau." Yet the McNamara demonstration, and the discussion that followed it, had lent some weight to SDS's argument about why officials like McNamara should be asked to speak publicly...
...weeks of shooting, Glenville's troupe will pour $500,000 into the economy of a country whose national budget totals $10 million. In gratitude, Soglo cleared the cramped harbor of Cotonou while Glenville shot dockside scenes; he allowed Cotonou to be plastered with billboards of Duvalier, lent his own Mercedes to the Burtons for the duration, and rented them the Ivory Coast's government villa for a brisk $1,000 a month...
...setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen...