Word: layed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 35,000). Their women wear cute nautical jewelry: port (red) and starboard (green) earrings, charm bracelets that spell i LOVE YOU in colorful International Code flags, mast-shaped scatter pins emblazoned with code flags reading K-U-Z-I-G-Y (International Code for PERMISSION GRANTED TO LAY ALONGSIDE...
...Iron. At Wuhan last December, the Central Committee of the party had to recognize that 1) the frenzied bombardment of Quemoy had failed to shake the nerve of either Formosa or the U.S., and 2) the ruthless jamming of peasants into rural communes had disorganized the nation. Ships lay for as much as two weeks at Shanghai docks awaiting loading and unloading. Textile mills lacked raw material; exports fell off; production was declining everywhere. Thousands of tons of pig iron were turned out by backyard furnaces but then proved useless without further costly refining; there was not enough cement...
When the Turkish empire lay in ruins after World War 1, two men prevented their occupied homeland from being reduced to impotence. One was the great Kemal Ataturk, who is dead. The other...
...invaders set sail at dawn one day in the 55-ft. yacht Mayari from Batabanó, a fishing village on Cuba's south coast. Three were drowned upon landing at Nombre de Dios, including one leader who preached "Never lay down your gun" so convincingly that he could not let go of his as it dragged him down. The remaining invaders moved into nearby Nombre de Dios in such manly fashion that three love affairs quickly blossomed. When he was asked to marry the three couples, the village priest refused: "These hurried romances need a cooling-off period...
...Bernice B. Cronkhite, dean of the Radcliffe Graduate School, will lay the cornerstone of the new refectory at the Radcliffe Graduate Center today...