Word: layed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Believing that the state's troubles lay primarily in its concentrated industry rather than in liberal economic measures, Williams, Walter Reuther, and Louis Miriani, the mayor of Detroit, asked for a $380 million federal area redevelopment bill to broaden the base of the economy...
...stuff appeals to a certain minority audience--educated, intelectual people, I suppose--and if they're not there, the performance that night gets a poor response. That's why I prefer concerts to night clubs. When somebody is willing to lay out money for tickets to hear me, I know they're interested. Almost anybody is likely to wander into a night club, though, and they may not be in tune with my 'great artistry...
...cheating possible under such a system. Despite the fact that Student Government began placing mild restrictions on exam conduct a few years after the honor-system privilege was granted, the 'Cliffies clamored for "crystallization of a positive honor system." In particular, the student body objected to a principle which lay at the heart of successful unproctored examinations--the student's responsibility to report any rule violations which she chanced to observe...
...Meadows, 16-year-old night sergeant for the inmates, at last broke through one window guard, and another gave way to the boys' desperate strength. Through the two openings, 48 escaped. By the time the fire trucks arrived, the building had caved in, and in its flaming ruins lay the bodies of 21 boys. It was the biggest casualty list in Little Rock fire records...
Other praise was less pronounced. One member thought the music was "great for snowing dates," but he admitted that he had been dateless last Friday. His companion noted that record players placed in barns cause hens to lay more eggs, but he was unsure what the corresponding effect might be in Kirkland...