Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before he was a Senator, McCarthy owed the Appleton (Wis.) State Bank $169,540.70 (secured mostly by stocks in which he was speculating), despite the fact that the legal loan limit for that bank was $100,000. Since he began his fight against Communism, his bank accounts have improved greatly. In the last four years, he has deposited in one bank account $172,623.18, and his administrative assistant Ray Kiermas has deposited $96,921.26. The subcommittee's implied question: Where did all this dough come from...
...year-old terracotta Greek ox ($2.75) to a shimmering Aphrodite ($37.50). A pet Taylor project is a monthly set of 24 color reproductions for $1.25; more than 4,000,000 sets have been sold since 1948. Other sidelines: traveling shows, lectures five days a week, a loan policy that sent 1,840 treasures to 120 schools, colleges and smaller museums last year...
...Richard Nixon's cocker spaniel, Checkers . . . Millions of American dog owners were carried away by the image of Checkers' sad eyes pleading: "My poor master," "mortgages," "old car," "policy loan," "Republican cloth coat," etc. They rushed to vote for Nixon. The resulting landslide for the Republicans, including the election of Eisenhower, was natural, if coincidental...
...Martyrdom of St. Matthew, famed masterpiece of 17th century Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Venturi had seen the painting often before in Rome's dimly lit church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
...museum announced the purchase of a work by U.S. Sculptor William Zorach, 65. The Met's new sculpture is, however, on an eternal theme: Mother and Child. Moreover, it is an old friend; for three years, in the early '40s, it stood in the Metropolitan, on loan from the artist...