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Word: lay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert F. Kennedy '48, is allowing a quietly organized write-in campaign to be conducted on his behalf. Should he draw an unexpected vote, he can take the credit. If he doesn't, he can say he had promised to support McCarthy. Either way, Kennedy can lay claim to part of the vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voters Change Party Registration In Anticipation of Mass. Primary | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

...explain "nigger" to the tearful face of a six-year-old? That the zoo is for whites only? How do you enlist a soldier to lay down his life for freedom-of which he knows not? How do you tell a young mother to teach her young that tear gas, dogs and fiery crosses should instill a zest for self-dignity? How do you tell the world that a great man, a black man, has been shot by a white man for wanting to be a free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...always in the war when the Communists do not choose to fight, the allies for the moment could find few of the enemy. The explanation lay neither in a purposeful de-escalation by Hanoi to abet peace talks nor the possibility that the Communist forces were so shattered by their recent losses that they could not fight at all. Instead, there was every indication that the Communists were simply hiding out while they got resupplied for fresh offensives. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Changing of the Guard | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...into place from nearby mountain slopes, and another army of artisans to carve out some three miles of bas-reliefs. What caused the massive temple to be abandoned is equally obscure, although evidence suggests it was caused by the volcanoes that form the spine of Java. For centuries, it lay buried under jungle rot and volcanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Beleaguered Borobudur | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...year). But he is no slouch at spending. He has already granted Bill Cosby's corporation -which started with a capital investment of $150-a five-picture, $12 million contract. Hyman also signed Paul Newman to his first directing assignment, Now I Lay Me Down, and has purchased the screen rights to Tennessee Williams' new play, The Seven Descents of Myrtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Three to Get Ready | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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