Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Renoir's Boating Party was lent to us by the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington people who knew the canvas 20 years ago didn't recognize it. It had been cleaned, and all the half-tone passages were gone...
Finally retracting his nails, he promised to restore straight entertainment to the show and "give up Winchell and Kilgallen for Lent." Ten times over he had said about all there was to say, except how glad he was to be working again for NBWC...
...zeal of Southern Negro students rubbed off on white collegians thousands of miles away. Sympathy pickets appeared last week before Woolworth's stores in Boulder, Colo., Madison, Wis., and Boston, lent weight to a drive organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to exert economic pressure against five-and-dime chains. Variety stores in North and South were feeling the pinch of Negro economic pressure-a new weapon long deemed too risky-but so far the Negroes had not yet won so much as an integrated cup of coffee below the Potomac...
...years the Russians have lent the Chinese the somewhat unimpressive sum of $430 million, in deals signed only after months of hard bargaining. Currently the Chinese are shipping the Russians $250 million worth of goods a year more than they receive. Still, when the Chinese proclaim loudest of all that Communist strength now exceeds Western strength, the strength they are bragging about is primarily Russia's-Sputniks and missiles...
Just as the Christian Lent produced the custom of Mardi gras, so the Moslem fast of Ramadan, ninth and holiest month of the lunar calendar,* has long led to peculiar accommodations in Islamic countries. For 29 or 30 days every year, the devout, who must abstain from food, drink, tobacco and sex from dawn to sundown, make up for it by overindulging and undersleeping during the hours of darkness. When Ramadan, on its 32-year migration through the solar calendar, happens to fall in summer, many a weary Moslem gives up, sleeps the whole fasting day through. Tempers grow short...