Word: layed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tempest takes place in a single afternoon on an island in Bermuda (as the text itself informs us), which lay unsettled until Sir George Gowers and his crew were shipwrecked on its coast in 1609. Several accounts of the expedition and wreck circulated in England the next year, and these provided Shakespeare with much of his material. The dramatist, in order to make the island a way station between Africa and Naples, simply transferred his Bermuda from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean...
...back on the fate of the Jews" during the Holocaust [July 9]. The Jewish scholar Pinchas E. Lapide investigated the Pope's and Catholics' activities on behalf of the Jews, and in Three Popes and the Jews he estimates that Pius XII and countless priests, nuns and lay Catholics saved the lives of between 700,000 and 850,000 of their Jewish brethren from rampaging Nazis sometimes at the cost of their own lives...
...expanded their share of the U.S. auto market, and in May accounted for a record 24.3% of all cars sold. During the first six months of this year, while sales of U.S. autos fell 7.9% below last year's level, forcing the carmakers to cut back production and lay off workers, foreign automakers sold 14.7% more cars. Volkswagen, for its part, has been extremely pleased with the quality and productivity of the New Stanton, Pa., plant at which it has been assembling its hot-selling, 26-m.p.g. Rabbit models since...
...Louis. Mayes likes to have his outsize portable tape player blaring disco music when he skips rope, and he did not alter that regimen for last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...
...been in fear of their lives. "Don't cry, brother," said an elderly guerrilla to a frightened young guardsman; he had threatened to kill himself with a hand grenade if he was not permitted to board an emergency flight out of the country. In the end, he lay down the grenade and fell, sobbing, into his former enemy's arms...