Word: layed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drunk--and what few drunks we have are usually that way when they come in here--there's no need to lay a finger on him," says Jack Spear, manager of the Wursthaus. "Tact. That's the way to handle him. Place him on a pedestal with a few words, and make him think that you're his servant. Pretty soon he'll be outside...
...Crimson will display a more balgneed team this year than last year when the core of the strength lay in the weight events. While the team has lost some power in this department due to graduation that loss is more than made up by the addition of a good group of sophomores to the running squad. This department will be strengthened immeasurably over last year...
...back broken, the old warrior settled slowly into the trough, sea water surging through her open ports. But she would not sink. A tug was ordered in to ram. Still the Implacable stayed afloat. For three hours the old ship lay awash, her gunwales flush with the waves, her flags still flying. Then, as darkness fell, her old timbers parted and she went under. Victory's victory was at last complete...
...table lay a big white envelope. The envelope, said Perón, contained a statement listing his assets before he took office; it had been sealed for three years. He persuaded New York Timesman Milton Bracker and the U.P.'s William Horsey to open it. Then he called Prensa and Nación reporters forward to sign statements attesting to the contents. The statement, dated July 6, 1946 (a month after Perón took office), said simply that his assets then consisted of the San Vicente quinta, a Packard and a share in his father's modest...
...announced ten years ago that the University of Chicago was dropping football, Harvard Athletic Director Bill Bingham threw one of the first stones. It was shrewdly aimed at both Chicago football and Chicago's Robert Hutchins, who liked to say that whenever he felt like exercising, he just lay down until the impulse passed away. Said Bingham, whose team had walloped Chicago, 61-0: "Not everybody can develop a physique like Sir Galahad's by lying down." In a snappy reply, Hutchins reminded Bingham that "Sir Galahad was not noted for his physique; his strength...