Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tempest in the TV teapot be finally laid to rest with one simple statement of fact...
With the three best of last year's defensemen returning, the defense is the most experienced unit on the team. Bob Anderson, among the most proficient checkers in the league, Greg Downes, extremely aggressive, and a healed captain Mike Graney give Weiland reason to relax. Graney, laid up periodically last year with a wrenched back, has more or less recovered...
...filed their petitions on time, I feel obligated to run the election as scheduled, unless the Senior Class in overwhelming numbers request that these very rules which were drawn up to insure equality be set aside. In short, the question depends on whether election rules can be laid aside at this late date and for these reasons, or whether by abandoning all procedure an election becomes a farce...
Last week the dispute came to open warfare. The first barrage was laid down by Biologist Jean Rostand, 65, who reputedly knows more about frogs than any man alive, and who had been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with...
...industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors and Studebaker-Packard also operating five days, the industry's output for the week was 67,100 cars, up from 64,233 the week before. In midweek the year's production to date crossed...