Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change was only one of many that swept Haiti last week. As the country's 6 million citizens adjusted to the realization that Baby Doc was gone for good, they exulted in what the Roman Catholic bishop of Cap Haitien called "our second independence." And although the annual pre-Lent Mardi Gras celebration was canceled for fear that the swelling crowds would become disorderly, there were noisy, exuberant gatherings across the land...
...milestone for the first time, closing the week at a record 1613.42. But the rally stalled occasionally, partly because many investors were nervous about the effect that falling oil prices could have on Mexico, Nigeria and other debt-ridden oil producers and on the banks that have lent them money...
Carnival, the pre-Lent celebration of food, music and merrymaking, came two days early to Miami's Little Haiti this year. After Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier boarded a plane for France last week, hundreds of Haitian immigrants, some still dressed in their pajamas, streamed into the streets to cheer the youthful dictator's fall. Pedestrians danced and sang, and car drivers happily honked their horns as swelling numbers of Miami's 60,000 Haitians joined the revelry...
...magazine currently has no office at the K-School and was forced to operate out of space lent to them by Winthrop Knowlton, the director of the Center for Business and Government...
...protest movement. Hyperbolic flame-thrower Dinesh D'Souza followed in The New York Times by implying that those who support divestment from South Africa are in fact condoning mass extinction and, by obvious implication, persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. That charge, in addition to being utterly absurd, lent a new, odious twist to anti-Semitic-baiting by the right...