Word: loan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of Bob Taft's disavowal of his own long-range housing program, New Hampshire's Republican Charles Tobey forced the full Taft-Ellender-Wagner Act to the Senate floor. Promptly, Wisconsin's ex-Marine Joe McCarthy offered a substitute bill, which would simply increase loan and mortgage guarantees to private builders...
...police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval of the $65 million loan for building U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters...
Mexican Producer Luis Sánchez Tello, an associate of Huston's, later bumped into Croves in San Antonio, Tex., and at Croves's urgent request lent him $100. The loan was repaid by check. Spota never learned who had signed the check. But he discovered that Croves had been traveling on a U.S. passport, and that the check had been sent from Acapulco...
...once have loved her, he feels nothing for her now but pity. And since "it had always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved," Scobie one day sets his integrity aside, surreptitiously borrows money from an unscrupulous Syrian (the only man who can afford the loan) and sends Louise off on the long vacation that is her heart's desire. It is also his (unadmitted) heart's desire to have...
...what Scobie thinks of as pity, proceeds inexorably to destroy him. A young girl, survivor of a torpedoed ship, is carried into his life on a stretcher, and rather than let her innocence be corrupted by a promiscuous R.A.F. pilot, Scobie becomes her adulterous protector. Blackmailed by the Syrian loan-shark, Scobie, who cannot bear to let his wife suffer, buys off the Syrian by helping him to smuggle diamonds through the British blockade...