Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...larger than the life it tried to record. Legends stalked its pages: Lucius Beebe, Walter Lippmann, Grantland Rice. Abraham Lincoln courted the paper's support; so did Lyndon Johnson. The Tribune was glamorous in part because of its precarious, hand-to-mouth existence. The paper's death in 1966 lent its history the final stuff of which enduring myths are made: a sad ending...
...fundamentals in education and basing classes on the core values of Western civilization. The Secretary also harped on the importance of self-discipline and a drug-free campus. His allegations were poingantly Reaganesque, well formed with appropriate anecdotes, yet totally lacking a systematic or considered basis that might have lent them any credence...
...calls his year off "a spiritual consolidation of a lot of things." The Dunster resident says, "[The time off] changed my over all perspective on how my studying affects people over there. Meeting the contemporary artists and seeing the conditions they live under put the subject in context; it lent reality to the texts...
...Western Europe. But the effects were muffled during the 1970s by a worldwide boom in exports. The Soviet Union began introducing more meat into its citizens' diets and imported grain on a huge scale for animals to eat. Oil- price increases piled money into international banks; the bankers lent the cash to Third World nations, which then went on a food-buying spree. Farmers everywhere pushed production still higher to cash in on the new prosperity. Western Europe, for example, went from being a net importer to a net exporter of some important food products. Still there seemed...
...major new biography by Jeffrey Meyers has appeared, as well as a memoir by his son Jack Hemingway. Jack and some other relatives have lately formed Hemingway Ltd., which will market the family name for use on such items as fishing rods and safari clothes. Jack has also lent Papa's name, grotesquely, to a line of shotguns...