Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again necessary to pause. We have traced a line from a man seeking representative office to a man committing a minor crime; fortunately most student-leaders do not go to the end of the line, nor is it inevitable that they should do so. But the path has been laid, and he who wishes may follow it. That few do so is a credit not to the obscurity of the path, but to the strength of the individual...
...April 7--Konrad Adenauer's decision today to surrender his West German chancellorship for the less important presidency stunned German politicians and world diplomats alike. Ludwig Erhard, 62-year-old economics minister and architect of Germany's postwar business recovery, was expected to take over next September the leadership laid down by the 83-year-old Adenauer...
Once you get the hang of interpreting these things, it is like having a new world laid out before you. You know, for example, that 13 lines against a background of mud, colored not too dark, nor yet too light, would depict a carelessly raked garden, planted heavily to leeks, in a Tibetan lamasery...
...Hawks has put too many shooting irons in the fire. The picture has not one but three heroes (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson); they divide the sympathies and overpopulate the screen. For another thing, the film lasts almost as long (2 hr. 21 min.) as five TV westerns laid end to end-and it makes about as little consecutive sense...
...articulate, percussive quality well suited to the rapid trills and runs of 18th century organ style. With Biggs playing the Flentrop and Pinkham * operating a smaller 18th century organ moved in especially for the occasion, the concert unfolded as a gaily trip-hammered dialogue in which one instrument occasionally laid down the theme, then fell back to let the other one elaborate. Most of the time the two organs sounded together, but there was one passage where they called back and forth to each other like two playful boys. Each concerto ended with a sprightly minuet of such infectious gaiety...