Word: lay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brennan says that the Board's decision was consistent with the Congressional intent of the legislation, for Congress did not specifically make any provisions prohibiting solicitation and distribution. Brennan dismissed the hospital's argument of the Board's lack of expertise in health matters, saying the Board's expertise lay in labor relations and Congress gave the NLRB authority to administer hospital disputes...
...years apostles of reform in the Roman Catholic Church have advocated sweeping changes in the election of the Pope. In the heady atmosphere of the 1960s, when the Second Vatican Council was bringing change to so many other areas, enthusiasts envisioned elected delegations of bishops, priests, even lay men and women trooping to Rome to choose the next Pontiff. Others, more realistic, argued that the body of papal electors should be expanded to include the sort of worldwide sampling of bishops who attended the synods convened by Pope Paul...
...effort excited such frantic bidding. With paperback rights, the successful bidder would be able to saturate those ubiquitous wire racks?if Puzo's track record is any guide?with one of next year's biggest blockbusters. Stores would be clamoring for every paperback copy of Fools Die they could lay hands on. This, in turn, would give the publisher leverage to persuade sellers to stock other titles on the firm's list: a million-dollar domino theory...
...skiers who fall have tried to hold slope owners liable for their injuries (a verdict awarding $1.5 million to a Vermont skier was upheld by the State Supreme Court), and outdoorsmen who camp in the vicinity of Yellowstone National Park's bears are, when attacked, trying to lay the rap on the Park Service. A camper received leg wounds from one of the bears against which the park constantly warns with signs, brochures and general publicity; the victim argued that the Park Service was negligent not to warn more sternly, more thoroughly, more precisely. The Government won that case...
...lumpy, unathletic student who later redeems himself by becoming editor of the school paper, after he has been stripped and abused sexually by a gang of healthy fools: "Grove was set free and ran to his room, and for hours after that, alone in the darkness, he lay wondering how he was going to live the rest of his life." This is acute and poignant; so is the author's evocation of the gulf between the sexes, in a scene where the philandering French instructor realizes that he has grown tired of his mistress: "Did women realize how vulnerable...