Word: layed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant, popular Democratic Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown. The Republican Party of California lay wrecked on the shoals of Bill Knowland's ambition...
...bottom of this outburst of African against African last week lay a deep-seated envy and distrust. All through France's West African territories the best positions in government, business and industry are held by industrious citizens from Togoland and Dahomey. Nearly 100% of the Ivory Coast fisheries are in their hands. As more and more Frenchmen leave technical and administrative jobs, Dahomeyans and Togolanders win the competitions to replace them. Explained a French businessman: "The truth is that the people from Dahomey and Togoland are more intelligent, better trained and educated, more disciplined and harder working than...
...there is more to this decision than mere dissatisfaction with the current cheerleaders' behavior and organization. Pretty clearly the Council hopes that its athlete-cheerleaders will command more support from the stands than even the most sedate and well-organized bunch of lay-cheerers. It believes that most undergraduate spectators will know by sight at least a few of the prominent athletes holding the megaphones, and will respond more eagerly to their urgings...
Prepaid Signal. While Pius XII lay dying inside the cream-colored stone walls of Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence 15 miles southeast of Rome, 200 newsmen gathered for the courtyard deathwatch. United Press International rented a room on the square and dickered with a nun for the use of her telephone; the Associated Press signed up a village butcher's phone; reporters lounged in their cars or on cots and sleeping bags, drinking Cokes, shaving in the fountain. Rome's Italia news agency, mistaking a fluttering Gandolfo curtain for a prearranged, prepaid signal of the Pope...
...times by inches. The most exciting of these came in the last ten seconds of regulation time whn Bagnoli made a wonderful save on a high shot. The ball hit the crossbar and bounded down right in front of the goal. A Penn forward tore in and as Bagnoli lay helplessly on the ground headed the ball at the goal. The ball just cleared the nets and the game went into its fruitless overtime...