Word: lay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ended a six-week filibuster on the Anti-Lynching bill, first defeating (for the second time) a motion for cloture, then voting 58-10-22 to lay the bill aside...
...prison camps of Austria, releasing everyone confined for a political offense. There have been few political crimes in history more revolting than that of certain Austrian Nazis who, in 1934, disguised in Austrian uniforms, invaded the Chancellery in Vienna and shot in cold blood Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who lay groaning before he died (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). To Schuschnigg and Miklas, the decree was immoral in every sense of the word, but the President signed it. Out of Austrian jails soon walked 54 Nazis convicted in the Dollfuss assassination case. In all, the decree released 1,228 Nazis from Austrian...
...approached. General Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight at the leaders. The crowd broke. Dead in the gutter lay Romano Maldonado, 8; Salvadore Vasquez, 14; Vidal Torres, 56. Fourteen others lay wounded...
Cried she: "I've got a lot of new axes -about a dozen of them-and I'm not going to quit until every machine is out of the city." In Alton's Methodist Church, lay men and churchmen held a mass meeting to raise funds for her defense. Oddly, none mentioned the real reason...
...From those fees 15% goes for hospitals' charges, 12% for administration expenses of the service, the balance into reserve. During the four years since these hospital services developed subscribers paid $7,681,517 to hospitals. $1,230,000 to administration, banked $1.331,000 in reserve. To lay heads together, chiefly with an eye to putting another 1,200,000 names on their books this year, the youngish directors of the 60 U. S. hospital service plans now functioning held their first national convention in Manhattan last week...