Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are, of course, other problems. Los Angeles is struggling to lay enough sewage lines, provide enough water, build enough hospitals to accommodate its mushrooming population. The city can barely build new freeways fast enough to keep up with the growing auto population, and traffic is already so bad that a single accident can pile up as many as 50 cars in one grand smashup. The task of problem solving is falling increasingly on the state government in Sacramento or on Washington. After city and county authorities balked at using local tax funds, for example, the state...
...their targets, he ordered smoke rockets fired onto V.C. positions, outlined his own with colored smoke grenades. Despite the precautions, two Air Force F-100s swooping in to the rescue dropped their napalm canisters right on the U.S. lines. When the smoke cleared, many of the American troops lay writhing on the seared ground. Others ran screaming from their positions with their clothing afire...
...trademark of Luis Turcios Lima, 24, a former Guatemalan army officer who leads a daring band of 250 terrorists. Though President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has offered the guerrillas an amnesty ever since he took over last May from the military regime of Colonel Enrique Peralta, they refused to lay down their arms...
...master's degree; but only one-fourth of the fast-growing body of laywomen teachers in elementary schools have had more than one year of college work. Thanks to the generally low pay scale of Catholic education-laywomen in elementary schools average $3,250 a year-and to lay teachers' widespread conviction that they are treated as second-class citizens, even poorly trained teachers are in short supply. Nationwide, Catholic elementary schools average about one teacher to every 40 students, and in the crucial first three grades, the average class is nearly 50 pupils. Good teaching aids...
...like a Jehovah chiseled in granite, had inherited so much money that he never bothered to practice law, spent his days at his club. Mama Potter, who looked like Queen Victoria, discouraged overnight visitors by keeping her spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that she can only afford...