Word: layed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tougher curriculum is the least and easiest of needed school reforms. The limiting factors loom larger than ever-rule and overrule by small-minded school board members having no single professional qualification, the absence of policy and real authority to cope with overwhelming discipline problems, the license of the lay public in interfering with and abusing school personnel...
...They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck. The diminutive mobster lay dead with his head on her lap, one chubby hand still clutching the wheel and the blood from three head wounds slowly staining his natty blue silk suit...
Under this unseemly quarrel lay a bold plan of maneuver: Grivas, who dreams of himself as a kind of Greek De Gaulle, hopes to use Greek passions over Cyprus as a lever with which to overturn the Athens government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis. Last week, driven to plain talk, Makarios publicly said as much. "From the moment Grivas decided to enter Greek politics," declared the Archbishop, "he did not see the Cyprus question with a clear eye." But plainly worried that Cyprus' hard-won independence settlement might be endangered by Grivas' demagoguery, Makarios also began seriously considering...
...these "lay readers" is expected to make possible the assignment of a larger number and a greater variety of writing exercises and to enable the teacher to try out new devices of composition instruction...
...pledges were marched to a buffet table. On a tray lay thick slices of oil-soaked raw liver, each about the size of a club sandwich. Gagging and coughing, the first six pledges managed to get the liver down without chewing it; that was part of the ritual...