Word: laide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took Dick Williams, the new Boston manager, to turn these poten- tially good players into a cohesive unit. Boston has long had the reputation as an undisciplined, live-it-up team, and has been a graveyard for managers. When Williams came onto the scene, he laid down the law: no overweight players, no sore-armed pitchers, no lazy self-centered attitudes. He showed he meant business by benching his good players when they started to lapse back into their old habits...
Each site will also have batteries of short-range Sprint missiles, designed to intercept, at ranges of up to 25 miles, any ICBMs that escape the clouds of X rays and neutrons laid down by the Spartans. In addition, five or six independent Sprint batteries will be deployed to protect the long-range radar sites and Minutemen in the U.S. Northwest. Though the number has not yet been determined, each Spartan site may have as many as 50 missiles...
...came to Bolivia briefly in 1963, returned for a few days last October, and came back again last March. The government claims that he went directly to the farm, which had been bought by a Castro front man. Setting up headquarters in some caves on the ranch, the guerrillas laid in large supplies of food and ammunition, even added a small shoe factory since, as Che wrote in his handbook on Guerril la Warfare, "Good shoes are more important to a guerrilla than food or his rifle." To clinch their case, the Bolivians produced the "war diary"; the handwriting...
...dangdest bunch of lobbyists anyone ever laid eyes on-a five-man Arkansas jug band appearing before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of Green Thumb, a Government project that gives old folks jobs beautifying Arkansas roadsides. As the jug band sawed away, someone passed out Green Thumb hard hats (worn as protection against falling tree branches). One of the hats wound up atop that dour Arkansan John McClellan, 71. Without a change in his grim expression, McClellan stood up and began dancing a jig to the Arkansas Traveler, all the while slapping at the hat to keep it in place...
...celibacy as "a hobbyhorse of Roman Catholic theology," Dutch Priest R.J. Bunnik contended that Pope Paul's decision on the issue even "contradicts the way of thinking of the Second Vatican Council, which refused to call the religious life any longer the 'state of perfection' and laid great stress on the vocation of all members of the church to a life of perfect love...