Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time that Hill has met with success. He is a member of the Friendship Church in Baltimore, and in 1965 was given a Certificate of Award from his community and was named Youth of the Year, a sure indication that stardom and a career at a great institution lay ahead...
...living in five trailers clustered around the walls of an old stone house. Farther down the road, a building which used to be a schoolhouse was being added. The schoolhouse had only been occupied for three weeks and was in a delightful state of confused transition. Old schoolbooks lay in the corners while tins of colored chalk and handwriting books inscribed in Gaelic were strewn all over. Electric guitars and amplifiers surrounded a set of drums at one end of the classroom. Stacks of cardboard eggcrates, to be used to improve the acoustics, sat on top of some boxes...
Thursday, William Young, a consultant to the Friendly Committee, emphasized the Overseers intention to open the new committee so that everyone could "lay their cards out on the table...
Deep shadows had fallen where angels and sponsors used to tread. The Metropolitan Opera's 1,100 doors were shut tight. The stage lights (total power: 6,000,000 watts) peered purblindly down on bare boards. In the pit a dirty dust rag lay limply on the conductor's stand, in place of a score...
...even more repulsive the pathological brutality with which it was carried out. In clearing the building, the occupiers repeatedly struck men who were leaving without protest. Most of these were struck from behind without warning and one man was kneed in the groin. then kicked and beaten as he lay immobile on the floor...