Word: lay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. At the Parliament Building, the royal guard of evzones, in their familiar red fezzes and frilled skirts, were drawn up to watch Ike lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier...
Behind the bow to Powell lay a close reading of the Granite State's grass roots by a Nixon scouting team. Conclusion: though Nixon is a heavy favorite, Powell's personal following (judged to be worth 10% of the vote) would insure a thumping victory over Likely Challenger Rockefeller, whose backers are primed to cry "Nixon can't win" if their man comes close to winning in the primary. Also rumors were flying that the Governor had also had the offer of the national chairmanship of Rocky's campaign in exchange for his support. Reportedly under...
...Brancusi knew well. In one room, sweet-smelling brown wax boiled on a rosy, potbellied stove. In the 100-ft.-long casting shed, coke fires hissed under fat crucibles shaped like medieval cannons, and overhead hoists trundled swaddled casts to their firing-pits. In a finishing room, a workman lay in the arms of a large bronze nude, reverently polishing her nose. In another corner, Marc Chagall supervised the application of a patina to his latest piece. Mustache quivering, Salvador Dali dropped in to examine a bronze book cover that had just been cast...
After cranberries, caponettes. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming took aim last week at the plump, premium-priced table fowl, gave them both barrels, and shot down the nation's entire supply. Behind his action lay some farfetched reasoning that the chemical used to caponize young chickens and make them into capettes or caponettes might conceivably induce cancer in the consumer...
...Silken Curtain) for what he considered its vacillation over Palestine; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Fleet-footed Bart Crum grabbed headlines in 1953 by chasing Aly Khan around the world to win a $1,000,000 divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte lay in endlessly championing a multitude of causes, some of them conflicting. Though he had once served as counsel to the Hearst publications, he published New York City's far left PM (renamed the New York Star) for a year (1948) until it folded. As a Republican, he managed Wendell Willkie...