Word: laine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have struck at the Jap within sight of Fujiyama and lain doggo for hours while the enemy's "cans" hunted and depth-charged, who have surfaced at night so close to the Japs that Tokyo Rose* came on the radio like a performer on a local station at home, have no need to lie. The truth of their work is enough...
...have lain in shell holes watching the skies for bomber and fighter plane help which failed to appear feel pretty bitter about the whole thing. In the Army, acts less treasonable than this are punishable with death before a firing squad...
...this was a music teacher's dream, for Hardie Robbins last week it was not a dream at all, but complete, three-dimensional, here-&-now reality. Private Hardie Robbins had lain last Christmas in Washington's Walter Reed General Hospital, his hands healing from the fearful burns they suffered when the Army transport U.S.S. Bliss was torpedoed off North Africa. The President's wife, on one of her numerous hospital rounds, had stopped to chat with him. What would he like best to do, she asked, once his bandages came off? Hardie Robbins guessed he would rather...
Tantrum. In Manhattan, a policeman complained that when he told Peddler Raymond Vasquez to move along he had thrown himself on the ground and lain there screaming and kicking...
...harbor of Toulon, spread out beneath the dark houses of the sleeping city, 62 vessels of the French Navy-battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and France's only seaplane carrier-were lying quietly at anchor or tied up at their piers, as they had lain for nearly two and a half years since the summer when France fell. At the city's gates soldiers of the French Army stood on guard. To the east, the sky was paling with the first light of dawn...