Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zoned! No nightspot here, no bar/there no sweet freeway, no premises..."); some of them talk about Henry (which is really the role of "his friend") in ordered, even ornate English: "Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls/where it did much resemble Henry..." Some mix the two languages: ("Henry lay in de netting, wild/while the brainfever bird did scales;") while some present experience that is clearly that of Henry's Negro friend, speaking without dialect; for example...
Would it? One clue to where the power lay came when General Suharto took to radio and television to declare that "the people are fed up with fake leaders" and to plead for patience in the struggle for a new political and economic order. The Cabinet shakeup, Suharto said, was only the first in a series of steps "which will lead to our ultimate victory." The general's emphasis was on doing things gradually, and his plea was primarily directed toward Djakarta's restive students, who would have liked to see a bigger shake...
...dreary episode, she is conned into buying scanty costumes for the school band. In another, she sends a shy little nun off to help a pack of screaming girls shop for their first brassières. Director Ida Lupino lets Angels swing lowest when she introduces a lay teacher, clad in passionate purple, whose specialty is "interpretive movement." Gypsy Rose Lee plays the part with all the boop-de-doo phoniness a second-rate show deserves...
...Midwest, mountains of grain lay aging in elevators for lack of boxcars to move the stuff to market centers. In the Far West, the area hardest hit by the boxcar shortage, at least 15 lumber mills have had to shut down temporarily because their production was far outdistancing their ability to transport. Similarly, because plywood plants cannot ship, the price of standard-grade plywood has jumped by more than one-third (from $62 per 1,000 sq. ft. to $86) in two months...
While the names of Maxey Jarman and Walter Hoving are hardly household words in the U.S., both men can lay claim to being top merchandisers. And they are now putting on a show making obvious the fact that they have just about as thorough a dislike for each other as exists anywhere in American business...