Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lent isn't what it used to be. Throughout Christendom, churches are relaxing the rigors of the traditional time of penance before Easter...
...night, fire bombs gutted Malcolm's home in East Elmhurst, N.Y., forcing him to flee with his family in nightclothes. Malcolm blamed it on the Muslims; they, in turn, accused Malcolm of planting the bombs in the house himself, partly for publicity purposes, partly because they had lent him the house in the first place and were now about to evict...
...Urgency. Giscard d'Estaing's proposal is unlikely to win much support for France. The major nations hold substantial reserves in dollars and pounds, and any weakening of those currencies would hurt them too. De Gaulle's scheme has at least lent urgency to the debate over the world monetary system. Britain is keen to revise that system, and last week Lyndon Johnson pointed out that the U.S. is exploring means of broadening the base for international finance (see U.S. BUSINESS). The majority of financial policymakers believe that new monetary reserves must be created, but the problem...
...other service chiefs, followed by eight officers of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars-Churchill's first regiment-bearing Sir Winston's medals. Behind the gun carriage strode the top-hatted men of the Churchill family, led by his son Randolph. In a carriage lent by the Queen were Lady Churchill and her two daughters Sarah and Mary. The march was accompanied by music of the Drum Horse and State Trumpeters in their velvet jockey caps and gold-laced jackets. Band after band-ten in all-appeared at appointed intervals in order to keep the pace steady...
...nations that have received IDA loans, India has benefited most, receiving $485 million for industrial imports, railways and telecommunications. Pakistan is next with credits of $242.7 million, $58 million of it for the Indus Basin development. IDA has also lent to emerging African nations a total of $72 million for such projects as a 112-mile, all-weather highway across Swaziland and school construction in Tanganyika. Latin America has been granted nearly $100 million to build transportation and agricultural facilities and to improve municipal water supplies...