Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realize that a ninth, Mary Ann Jordan, was spending the night. "While he was out of the room on one trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went off (a hospital Jeep was due to pick the girls up at 6:30 to take them to work), and slowly ran down. After summoning her courage, the lone...
...Middle Fork of Idaho's Salmon River. It is known as "the River of No Return," and the poor guides thought that was for sure. The place is full of dangerous rocks and swirling eddies; so naturally every time a guide stood up to see what lay ahead, some fun-loving Kennedy would push him overboard. The children organized rattlesnake hunts, and good old Bobby insisted on negotiating most of the run alone in a kayak. But Expedition Leader Don Hatch insisted it was a piece of cake. "The biggest problem," he said, "was keeping Ethel...
...church, the 82 Spanish bishops average 65 years of age; all owe their appointments to Franco,* and most are old enough to still think of him primarily as the savior whose crusade spared the church from the terrors of Communism. By contrast, most of Catholicism's influential lay leaders, and almost half of its 34,500 priests, are under 40. Many of the priests are of working-class origin, and feel strongly that the church has lost touch with the mass es. They accuse the hierarchy of doing little to implement the reforms of Vatican II, and generally regard...
...adversary. "He's not the Devil, son Roper, he's a lawyer! And my case is watertight!" Faced with the possibility of a test oath. More, good lawyer that he is, wants to see the statute--"But what is the wording?...It will mean what the words lay!...It may be possible to take it. Or avoid it. Have we a copy of the Bill?" Enough laws are still planted in England. More thinks, for him to stand whatever winds may blow. The sources that tell us of More's life--his books, his letters, the life...
...next difficulty lay in the fact that his volunteers tended to be more radical than he on domestic issues. The first piece of Adams literature identified the candidate as a "liberal Democrat" who would continue the domestic programs of Presidents Johnson and Kennedy. For most of the Hughes veterans this was not enough. Gradually the campaign and the candidate were growing away from each other...