Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written or spoken word, Dulles laid down these points...
...make labor reform a campaign issue. Last week the Denver County Republican leaders publicly endorsed a right-to-work constitutional amendment-a maneuver calculated to lure some of the state's 200,000 independent voters. Congressional failure to pass the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill will be laid essentially to the Democrats in a Democrat-controlled Congress...
...terrorist and I want to surrender." The young constable in charge was not overly impressed. All the same, he bundled his unexpected guest into a Land Rover and turned him over to his superiors in Segamat. There, incredulous officials questioned the prisoner for hours on end, laid every kind of verbal trap to see if he really was the man he claimed to be. Sure enough, he was none other than Hor Lung, the leading Communist terrorist in South Malaya, and the last man the government thought would ever surrender...
This guy Ernie (as many a conversation in Hollywood steam rooms and Gibson shops made clear last week) was just an ordinary guy from Connecticut 15 years ago, serving a long hitch in the Navy. One day he was laid up in the hospital in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and right away he fell in love with his nurse. Girl by the name of Rhoda. Kind of fat girl, but nice, and it figured: he was fat; she was fat; they were happy...
...Earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Gordon joined G.M.'s Cadillac division as a laboratory technician. By 1946 he had become Cadillac's general manager, had also helped develop the gas-saving high-compression engine that boosted sales and laid to rest an old joke about the gas-eating Caddy.† Gordon likes to test his own products himself. Once, during an argument with another G.M. executive in Colorado, where the corporation has a test track, he hustled out of his hotel at 2 a.m. and test-drove a Cadillac...