Word: laide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlisted men's chow hall, Johnson picked up a partitioned tray, protested, "I'm watching my waistline" as it was heaped. with baked ham, macaroni, cole slaw, salad, mashed potatoes and apple pie. For a moment he sat alone at a special long table laid out for him with a white tablecloth and yellow roses. Then Westmoreland shouted to his subordinates...
...seven nations meeting in Manila last week reasserted their desire for peace and their determination to bring the war in Viet Nam to an honorable conclusion. In three separate documents resulting from the conference, the allies also went a long step further. They laid the groundwork for an eventual Asia-wide security grouping under U.S. auspices. They emphasized as well their resolve to achieve a Pacific consensus on the peaceful development of the region's resources...
...Wesleyan and the University of California at Riverside before shifting to Texas in 1958. He first turned public critic in a series of Phi Beta Kappa lectures at ten campuses in 1964. At this month's convention of the American Council on Education in New Orleans, Arrowsmith boldly laid his criticisms before 1,400 college trustees, presidents and deans. He accused them of selling out to "the research professoriate" through a "vacuum of leadership" and a "failure of nerve"-and drew warm applause...
...leader, was producing at capacity through August, when stocks of unsold cars began growing alarmingly. Now General Motors-owned Vauxhall, Rootes Motors, and Standard-Triumph as well as B.M.C. have cut work weeks to four days. B.M.C. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that 12,000 employees will be laid off early next month, "and it does not appear that they will be taken back again." Angry workers have responded with wildcat strikes, and union leaders utter dark warnings of slow downs and more work stoppages...
Precisely at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of May 2, 1945, the men of 22 Nazi and six Italian Fascist divisions in northern Italy laid down their arms. The surprise mass surrender, which involved nearly 1,000,000 troops and led only days later to Germany's complete capitulation, could only have been engineered. It was, in fact, one of the most stunning triumphs in the history of secret wartime diplomacy. The Allies' Operation Sunrise was bossed principally by Allen Dulles, who was later to become director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...