Word: lay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President upon his return to Washington was a pile of reports from U.S. officials who had had a chance to study closely Nikita Khrushchev's U.S. visit. The reports were surprisingly optimistic about Khrushchev's intentions-but it remained for the President to evaluate the facts that lay behind the optimism, and on his judgment could depend the course of international relationships for years to come...
...goals the various programs were pushing toward, ARPA's Johnson testified that he did not know of any "total long-term space program." Echoed Lieut. General Bernard Schriever, Air Force research and development chief: "I am not aware whether or not there is an effort being made to lay out one single program...
...opened fire with a deafening clatter. A youth broke out of the startled crowd to hurl himself in front of Kassem as a shield, and a taxi driver rammed his cab between Kassem's station wagon and the gunmen. But it was too late; Kassem's driver lay dead, and the Premier himself was reeling and bloodied, his hand ripped by one submachine gun slug, his arm shattered by two more. He had escaped death by inches...
...time election day came round last week, Ghana's uncorrupted, British-trained police had been forced to arrest 82 United Party toughs, while only seven of the C.P.P.'s boys got into trouble. And two C.P.P. men-the only martyrs of the whole election-lay dead, the victims of a U.P. mob. After that, Nkrumah's candidate was a shoo-in, and the P.M. himself could turn to other things. At week's end he turned up before the steering committee of the All-African People's Congress in Accra to deliver a stirring anticolonial...
...Lay dry. And morning on the Ganges rose...