Word: lay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efficiency of air power against North Viet Nam, can be faulted; so can the State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with the Chief Executive. When it came to the point of choosing between certain defeat of the South Vietnamese armies and the introduction of U.S. ground combat units, Johnson chose to fight. Except for such critics as General James Gavin, the never-again club was disbanded. As Professor Hans Morgenthau puts...
Fears About Security. The reason for the sudden Soviet attack lay in the maneuvering that is going on among Communist countries in preparation for the world meeting of parties now scheduled for June 5 in Moscow. The Soviets had hoped to use the occasion to formally expel the Chinese from the Communist movement. Their aim has been blocked by West and East European parties that have displayed defiance of the Soviets by refusing to go along with this plan. Now the Russians apparently have tried to sidestep the entire issue by asserting that the Maoists are no longer Communists...
Looking out the windshield from my cramped position in the back seat, I could see little of what lay ahead on the nearly empty highway. Sometimes, out of the window next to me, I'd catch fragments of the passing landscape--usually just mist-surrounded trees or burnt red barns...
...received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow on the head inflicted by a cop. The police-fund drive should be bigger, Royko conceded, because "Seminarian Ries contributed much less to the convention drama than did the city's policemen. He just lay there and bled, while they went on to even greater deeds." The American struck back in an editorial, calling Royko "an overworked humorist" who apparently believes that "demanding fair trials for policemen just shows you're prejudiced...
...only outright progressive among the new cardinals, Detroit's John F. Dearden, has encouraged widespread lay participation in the internal affairs of his big archdiocese, and has been remarkably successful as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. Pittsburgh's Bishop John J. Wright, one of the most articulate theologians in the U.S. hierarchy, played a significant role in shaping several documents of Vatican II. He will return to Rome to an as yet unannounced post in the Curia...