Word: lay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointed to investigate last spring's student rebellion at Columbia. Implicitly advising other school administrations on how to avoid such troubles, the Cox report contends that Columbia administrators had too often "conveyed an attitude of authoritarianism and invited distrust" of students and that the roots of unrest lay in a "deepseated dissatisfaction with Columbia life" among nonradical students and faculty. Cox concluded that "the survival of Columbia as a leading university depends upon finding ways of drawing this constructive segment of the student body back into the stream of university life...
Winthrop coach Joe Mullin pointed out the extenuating circumstances in his team's failure to score against the Dunster Funsters. "We had a week's lay-off after a heartbreaking 28-26 loss to Kirkland House," he said, "and, after all, Dunster is the most highly touted touch football team this year...
...surprisingly, Wilson, after cautioning that it is difficult to provide absolute answers to questions of police behavior, proceeds to offer a few suggestions of his own. What he says is not sanguine, but sensible. Even though administrative control over the patrolman is limited, the police chiefs can try to lay down some negative polices: how not to treat Negroes, for example. And police departments can be functionally decentralized; policemen should be given a better chance to know their neighborhood, the better to exercise their discretion...
Eighth Writer: "Yeah, let's lay off the Polish jokes a little. And listen...
Loving and Flying. As with many another famous Victorian, her trouble-as well as her eventual triumph-lay in a longing for love and an excess of earnestness. Born plain Mary Anne Evans, the bright but ungainly daughter of a non-U Derbyshire estate agent, she lost her faith at 22 (in 1842) after a characteristically exhaustive study of new scientific attacks on the Scriptures. (She had attended several schools, but was largely self-educated.) When she declined to accompany her father to church, he refused to have her under the same roof and sent her away...