Word: layed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Week Lay...
...Yardlings had a week lay-off for mid-term examinations, but this week they have spent most of their energy preparing a defense for Princeton's single wing...
When TIME was already a fairly important magazine, Luce did not consider it beneath his dignity to appear at a businessmen's lunch and stage a quiz game to demonstrate the importance of accurate information. Later he was to write that the "invention" involved in TIME lay not in its brevity or in its principle of organizing the news but in its emphasis on the "instructive role of journalism." Still later, in early 1939, when he was displeased with the magazine, he complained: "Somehow it does not give the feel of being desperately, whimsically, absurdly, cockeyedly, whole-souledly determined...
Within "group journalism" (a phrase he sometimes used but did not approve of), Luce gave his staff an extraordinary degree of independence. "As an editor," writes Elson, "he did not like to lay down guidelines and rules; he understood that creative writers and editors worked better if given wide latitude. He was often disappointed in their work, but he accepted the risk as part of the price of aggressive journalism...
There is no sign of a letup in the resulting proliferation of pipe, even though some lines already parallel others. Gas companies plan to lay out another 850 miles next year, despite some gathering economic clouds. It takes about three years before a pipeline even begins paying its way, and it will be a long time before the gas companies can retrieve their share of the total $8 billion sunk off Louisiana so far. Even now, other underwater strikes are turning up, notably off Texas...