Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landscapes-simple stretches of rivers and mountains, with nothing more architectural to them than an occasional bridge or a range of steps-and to them White lent the best of his sense of color. White's skies, like Turner's, open on a sudden drenching spectrum, but. unlike Turner, the colors are never more than mute. White's palette, even at its rawest, never offered an indelicate hue: violet was his moodiest color...
...Aren't others, as well, alarmed at his public debauch, at his joyous wallowing in the insensitive, at his brazen certainty that we all will join him, slapping our thighs as we screamingly laugh at his vulgar barbs? And for this poison to be lent an aura of legitimacy simply by its appearance in your pages...
...scent of thick bluegrass and moist earth, the sight of grape hyacinth bordering the flower garden (which has been replanted by a new White House gardener), the hues of cherry blossoms and forsythia across the yard made him smile. Off to his right. Caroline's swings and slides lent a touch of outdoor domesticity. Said the President, with an expansive wave: "Look at that. Isn't it great?" The President's mood seemed to reflect the nation's: for the moment, at least, the U.S. seemed far less interested in the TFX squabble, the NATO nuclear...
...valo into court if he set foot in Guatemala. Then he had a better idea: Why not let Arévalo return and beat him at an election? Ydigoras could do this by his control of the election machinery. Ydigoras' own candidate was Roberto Alejos, a planter who lent some of his lands as training sites for the Bay of Pigs invaders. Guatemala's military men recommended against taking chances. Ydigoras went ahead anyway, and Arévalo sneaked into Guatemala. In fact, there were reports that Alejos arranged Arévalo's flight from Mexico...
...another of his playthings. Championship Sports, Inc. Championship must have $200,000 to promote next month's heavyweight rematch between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson, but most of its proceeds from the first Liston-Patterson match were seized by the Internal Revenue Service. Helpfully ex-Champion Patterson has lent the outfit $125.000 to help finance his rematch...