Word: lay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...careened off a country road in Oklahoma and crumpled against a culvert. Its sole occupant lay dead, surrounded by a litter of papers she had been carrying. Karen Silkwood, 28, a lab technician in a plant producing fuel rods for nuclear reactors, had been driving to meet a New York Times reporter. She hoped to document her charges that officials at the installation, owned by the Kerr-McGee Corp., had continually and carelessly exposed their employees to one of the world's most dangerous metals: plutonium. But after the car was towed from the ditch, the papers could...
...undergraduate science magazine written for lay people makes its first appearance today...
...East Frontier Agency (NEFA). Other Chinese forces marched through the rocky wastes of the Ladakh region of Kashmir, about 1,000 miles to the west. Outgunned and outmanned by the invaders, the ill-equipped Indian army fell back. After a month of smashing Chinese victories, much of northern India lay open to conquest. But suddenly the invaders stopped dead in their tracks. Radio Peking announced that "on its own initiative" China was declaring a ceasefire. Chinese troops pulled back from the front, in some cases by as much as 60 miles. It was all being done, the Chinese boasted...
Naturally, there can be enormous rewards for anybody who can lay his hands on a cargo of oil that is not locked up by a sales contract. Sometimes operating out of telephone booths, profiteers have been offering deals on as much as half of Indonesia's total production, which local politicians are said to have got their hands on. Oil cargoes have been sold four and five times while the tanker was still on the high seas, and each subsequent owner has pocketed vast profits. At a dinner of the Institute of Petroleum in London two weeks ago, while...
Berg's libretto, brilliantly compressed by the composer from two works by the German playwright Frank Wedekind, fared less well, and therein lay the perplexity. The production was staged by French Director Patrice Chéreau, 34, who has built a controversial career on the apparent principle that anything worth doing is worth doing outrageously. His avant-garde Ring cycle for the 1976 Bayreuth Festival drew boos and hisses as well as cheers, and is still hotly debated inter nationally by Wagnerians...