Word: lents
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...labor and management. I've never met Beck, and I've seen him only once, but my reaction always has been colored by the way he first came to my attention. It was from a businessman who was so callous about the whole deal, who'd .lent his strength to Beck because Beck could deliver the goods...
...early spring, industry sophisticates were joking about the musician who listened to Welk for Lent...
...sleep, tirelessly writing reprimands to his partners, agents and factors throughout Europe, begging them to act prudently, to "trust no man." Always, just as today, the last straw came in the form of taxation: "I shall see torn from me in my old age all that God has lent me . . . I have reached such a point that methinks, if a man stabbed me, no blood would issue forth...
...concentrate on producing more pigs, say two per citizen, the expression "passing a pig" would mean doing a good deed, instead of a bad one. In the next breath Khrushchev passed Soviet citizenry its biggest pig in many a year: he declared a moratorium on 260 billion rubles ($65billion) lent to the state by workers...
...related danger: the practice of confession, which turns the church in capitalist countries into a smoothly working espionage organization against the "revolutionary feelings of the people." No one knows how many Russian backsliders are observing Lent, but Pravda deplored the fact that "a considerable number of believers in the Soviet Union still observe the cult of confession...