Word: laine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught a 60-yd. pass and scooted for a touchdown that beat the Bears, 7-to-0. Later in his rookie year, he trapped the Bears again with two sensational touchdown passes in the last three minutes of play. Since then-though the Bears' strategists have lain awake nights trying to figure out ways to stop him-the Alabama Flash, pussyfooted and sure-fingered, has robbed the mighty Bears of at least two more Western Division titles...
...scholarly account of the social or economic background of any of the countries he talks about. Such a task would be far beyond his capabilities or ambitions, he asserts. Instead, he has chosen to present a smooth-running account of what he saw and heard in his tour of Lain America. One cannot but marvel that he should so neatly and unfailingly pick out the right amount and mixture of facts, figures, and opinions on which to make his representative characters speak and move about. He is particularly good on such important personalities as Vargas, Comacho, Batista...
Drawn originally as illustrations for Flaubert's Temptation of St. Anthony, these shadowy, brooding fantasies in black & white had long lain unpublished in the collection of the famed French dealer Ambroise Vollard, had found their way to the U.S. following Vollard's death in an automobile accident (TIME, July 31, 1939). This was their first public showing...
...Scharnhorst was waiting for a new propeller, British Intelligence reported. The battleship and her sister, the Gneisenau, had lain in Brest for over three months, and frequently R.A.F. reconnaissance took her picture, to make sure she was still waiting...
...weeks two drafts of an executive order which would end the OPACS-OPM wrangle by clarifying their jurisdiction have lain on President Roosevelt's desk. One draft gives OPACS full control over civilian supply. The other gives control to OPM, confines OPACS to the big job of watching prices. Unsigned, they have remained one of the many bottlenecks on the President's desk. Like many another of these bottlenecks, the OPM-OPACS jurisdictional feud would vanish if there were a single boss of defense...