Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusion-and the vio lence it was bound to provoke-represent a fissure within the top leadership? Perhaps. But the more likely explanation lay in the peculiar psychology of the Guards' creator. Years ago Mao reflected that a revolution is "not the same as inviting people to dinner or writing an essay or painting a picture. A brief reign of terror," he mused, was necessary to make a revolution work...
...suggests Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford, is that the council "demythologized" the church. Reported by secular mass media as just another news event, "it was brought down to human size and seen in the context of real life." Moreover, the evidence of elderly bishops openly challenging hallowed traditions inspired lay Catholics, young and old, to re-examine their faith on their own. In brief, the spirit of the council made membership in the church a matter of choice rather than inheritance...
...much capital spending today is not merely to broaden markets, but to replace costly old plants with automated new ones, or introduce some of the refinements of the research and development on which business spends $24 billion annually. The steel industry will lay out $2 billion this year, much of it for basic oxygen furnaces, continuous casting mills and other new technology rather than to increase capacity...
...Judge Cannon refused to give in -"I will remain in the Eagles as long as I live"-and Father Groppi's pickets looked to new targets among the Eagles on the bench. They marched outside the home of County Judge Christ Seraphim and threatened to lay siege to the home of Judge Robert Hansen. At week's end, however, a partial truce was arranged by state officials, and Father Groppi agreed to stay out of Milwaukee's police short suburbs after dark during the Labor Day weekend...
...base during World War II. The Russians, who had pounced like vultures at war's end, were busily dismantling the best of the Japanese factories when Lin and his 150,000 men arrived, but Lin sent cadres into the countryside with the order: "Take off your leather shoes, lay down your office bags, put on the clothes of the peasants, and eat kaoliang [the coarse sorghum of Manchuria]." The lessons of Yenan were being applied...