Word: layed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last we have in Henry Kissinger's White House Years [Oct. 1] a political memoir of world events for the lay person. The excerpt, void of political jargon, punctuated by imagery and vivid characterizations of political figures, moves along like a well-written novel. I only wish my college history textbooks were written in this fashion. Who says that past political events have to be flat...
...occur if the Federal Reserve's tightening up of money, and the resulting rise in interest rates, reach such levels that borrowers found it impossible to get money on almost any terms. Such a squeeze occurred in the summer and fall of 1974, and almost immediately forced businesses to lay off upwards of 2 million workers because of the unavailability of even short term credit...
Israel's destruction is in the interests of a large number of groups. To achieve it, any special claims Israel can make on the conscience of the world have to be obliterated. So Israel and the Jews are smeared with racism--the impulse that lay at the roots of the Holocaust--even though those doing the smearing are well aware that the charge of racism is completely unfounded...
...soon, there were only two knights still on horses, though bodies lay all around. And St. John glared at Irving, and neither had shield nor lance. But they rushed at each other and swung their swords so hard that they both fell from the horses; and both animals fell dead. But the two knights jumped up, and they delivered such blows to each other that they were soon both covered in blood. And the minstrels of King Joseph's Court played all the while, and the people threw eggs at them. And St. John, almost exhausted from such battle, took...
...everything was different. A physics student lay dead in the ruins of the Army Math Research Center and the brothers, Karleton and Dwight Armstrong, who had engineered the blast, were on the run from the FBI. The fresh-faced students from the surrounding Wisconsin dairy farms were gone; in their place stood experienced guerrillas trashing bank windows and planning immediate, total revolution. Nobody, not even the frat boys, cared about football anymore...