Word: lay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's first black lay principal of a Catholic high school (salary: $12,000), Convert Dulin sees his job mainly as one of building pride and responsibility among his black students...
...Express reporters covered all the candidates, examined the antiwar sentiment and racial conflict that lay be hind the election. Working from his reporters' lengthy files, English knocked out a rough draft of half the book in New York before Election Day. He shifted to London for seven weeks of fevered final writing, much of the time locked in a room with his closest collaborator, Correspondent Richard Kilian. "We thought we were never going to finish," English says...
Christo's other wrappings are likewise intended to lay bare an abstract truth-or truths-about the object swathed. "We never think of things in abstract terms," he observes, "because we are living persons and we see everything before us." By everything, he means surfaces, and in seeking to separate surface appearance from abstract reality, Christo often produces a work that is literally all package...
...drop in consumer buying. Now, as expected, the squeeze seems to be spreading to auto sales. Chrysler sales are down 12% from early last year, when strikes at Ford and General Motors gave the company an unusual advantage. To bring inventories in line with current sales, Chrysler will lay off 32,000 men for as long as two weeks and reduce its February output by 25% from its originally scheduled 140,000 cars. Ford has been curtailing production of its top-of-the-line Continental Mark IIIs and Thunderbirds...
Against Pennsylvania, it was a different plot, although the conclusion was the same. Time after time, Harvard would start a surge only to see the Quakers' Dave Whol or Steve Bilsky convert a jumper or a lay-up to blunt the drive...