Word: lain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan Republicans last week felt real power in political muscles that had lain flabby during the eleven years in which Governor G. Mennen Williams has been serving his six terms. Thanks to the state's prolonged case of insolvency (TIME, May 13), Democrat Williams' political hopes for presidential attention were stalled-and even the Democrats knew...
...John Diefenbaker, the appointment, made after the portfolio had lain open three months following the death of External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, is an almost perfect choice. The position crowns the career of a loyal retainer with no designs on the party leadership. Diefenbaker will set overall foreign policy, while Green will handle day-to-day problems and parliamentary rough-and-tumble. In bypassing younger Tory potentials, Diefenbaker also avoided tabbing any heir apparent...
Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...
...miles away. Yet there last week was a marvel of modern engineering: one of the world's longest single-span freight tramways, stretching 9,010 ft. across and 2,800 ft. up to the south rim. Its purpose: to haul bat manure out of caverns where it has lain for ages and hopefully net the haulers $12.5 million profit on a $1,000,000 investment...
...President's Council of Economic Advisers under Harry Truman, rapped "tricky gadgets" of inflation, such as cost-of-living escalator clauses in union-management wage contracts. "We should stop passing the buck to [Washington]," urged Nourse. "The real source of inflation in the postwar U.S. has lain in the marketplace-in the institutions and practices of labor-union bargaining and corporation price administration...