Word: lay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member National Assembly (291, v. 200), the balance of forces between the center-right and the left did not shift dramatically. Yet the Socialist-Communist alliance that had almost wrested the presidency from Giscard in 1974 and made stunning gains in the local elections in 1976 and 1977 now lay in ruins. The left's Common Program, calling for inflationary spending for social benefits and widespread nationalization of French industry, was headed for the rubbish bin of history...
...Episcopal Church, where the rise of women clergy is provoking the greatest trouble. Women now make up 18.4% of students earning Episcopal divinity degrees. Yet that church is already so oversupplied, the Hartford study figures, that if current trends continue, there will be one priest for every lay member by the year...
Like a grotesque, hook-shaped inkblot, the oil spread menacingly across the water. Along a single stretch of Brittany beach, 25 species of dead fish were found. Vast beds of seaweed, which are harvested to make Pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, were destroyed. Thousands of oil-tarred birds lay dead or dying. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey were threatened, as were the sands around the spectacular monastery at Mont-St.-Michel. Driven by gale winds, the oil may despoil more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther...
...fact well documented. There was, of course. Fitzgerald's wife Zelda, who hated Hemingway. He. in return, contended that she had ruined her husband's talent with her jealousy. Writing to Editor Perkins in 1933. Hemingway was of the callous opinion that Fitzgerald's salvation lay in Zelda's death or a stomach ailment that would prevent his drinking...
...Dear Ernest: Please lay off me in print. If I choose to write de profitndis sometimes it doesn't mean I want friends praying aloud over my corpse. No doubt you meant it kindly but it cost me a night's sleep. And when you incorporate it (the story) in a book would you mind cutting my name? It's a fine story- one of your best- even though the 'Poor Scott Fitzgerald etc.' rather spoiled...