Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into London, in response to a longstanding invitation from a group of British Laborite backbenchers, flew a high-powered Soviet parliamentary delegation headed by gaunt, shock-haired Mikhail Suslov, 56, top Stalinist theoretician. He chucked babies under the chin, watched the House of Commons in action, and laid the inevitable wreath on the Highgate grave of Karl Marx. But his real interest was in long, private discussions with top Laborites Hugh Gaitskell...
...Price had lined up a sampling from the growing literature for percussion ensembles. Included were Malloy Miller's Prelude for Percussion, Lou Harrison's Canticle No. j, Arthur Cohn's Quotations in Percussion, Michael Colgrass' Three Brothers. The most interesting was the Harrison piece, which laid down a hauntingly languorous theme on the ocarina, then echoed itself in a series of guitar, xylophone and muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand piano, which...
WASHINGTON, March 26--Britain, France, and the United States laid down differently worded conditions today for a summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
...boarders in Lowell so that when one adds to this number the commuters, inter-house students and tutors who also eat in the House the dining room is quite crowded. The dining hall is now blessed with a large wooden stage, numerous sets, stage lights, and wires. These objects, laid down in preparation for the Lowell House opera-necessitate a reduction of from fifteen to twenty chairs and a squeezing together of the remaining tables and chairs. Finally, the Freshman are now visiting the House dining halls and Lowell has been the most frequented house...
...apparently, were the European players. In one of the early games, Canada rattled a good Russian team with fierce body checks, breezed to a 3-1 victory. Playing in the same style, the U.S. flattened Sweden, 7-1. The victories were so convincing that the Europeans laid on the rough stuff themselves. Both the Czechs and the Swedes whacked their opponents to the ice in the best Canadian style. Even the Soviets, bruised by the MacFarlands, brawled in most uncomradely fashion with the Czechs before winning 4-3 in a game dotted with 15 penalties. But the Europeans will have...