Word: layed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...
...seven-foot marble statue of Mormon Brigham Young lay crated in Washington awaiting a decision on just where it would be set up in the Capitol's "Hall of Fame." Sculptor Mahonri M. Young, a grandson* of the Mormon leader, wanted it to go in a small alcove just off the main rotunda. Utah sponsors wanted it in the rotunda. But, objected the sculptor, the only spot available there is impossible: the statue would be right off the entrance to the ladies' rest room...
...influenced, explained Harley Hise, by the dire alternatives for K-F if the money had been refused. Said he: K-F might have had to shut down, resulting in heavy unemployment. As it was, K-F last week had to lay off 5,000 workers anyway, while it tried to sell cars on hand. But Hise hoped that that was just a temporary situation and that "the loans will be repaid from earnings...
...Punishment of defacers of property on football weekends in the past has warned invading celebrants to lay...
...spite of the excitement it raised among French politicians, the crisis was not a particularly acute one. The only danger lay in the possibility that a failure of the center parties to reunite would make national elections necessary, and that the extremist partics, the Communists and de Gaulle's RPF might then gain more scats. The collapse of Cabinets is a commonplace in French polities--in fact the Queuillo regime, which lasted a little over a year, was considered an oddity of longevity. Lack of Cabinet leadership delays only the top-level decisions, for the ordinary administrative bureaucracy goes...