Word: lay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connally's mentor, Lyndon B. Johnson, had a courage hang-up too. It lay in another direction. He talked about how he resembled Matt Dillon riding into town on his big horse. How Texas Rangers, men he admired, just kept coming at you even though they were shot. How he could not be a man to back away from a fight. There are some historians who believe L.B.J.'s narrow view of courage led us deeper into Viet...
...decided, in a mood of perversity, to paint "modern art" -pictures full of impressionist fuzz and expressionist slather. The Gorgon, 1943, a wretched parody of Monet applied to a surrealist syntax, may be the least inept of these. If anything, they showed how far Magritte's real gifts lay from the orthodox processes of modernism. Nor did his first essays in the surrealist manner, done in 1925-26, indicate much about the artist to come; they are, for the most part, grab bags of motifs from other painters, chiefly Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico...
...curious situation, not without a certain undercurrent of irony. The Clash, an English band of four tough-strutting musicians who together lay down the fiercest, most challenging sounds in contemporary rock, has just finished...
Consecutive lay-ups by McElaney earned Columbia its largest lead of the evening, 19 points, 70-51, with just under ten minutes left to play. Behind the efforts of graduating co-captain Bob Hooft, who registered a game-high 25 points, the Crimson cut the advantage to ten with 4:35 and then again with 3:27 still remaining. However, the accurate foul shooting of Byrd and Columbia's running style soon moved the margin back up over...
...proposal includes improved lay-out for the library, improved security, increased fire-detection in the rare-book section, an improved circulation pattern, and air-conditioning in the reading rooms," Caspar W. Wooldredge Jr., an architect in the University planning office, said yesterday...