Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate's self-importance-and despite its quickly asserted control over presidential appointments-there was little doubt in the early days of the Republic that the real power lay in the House of Representatives. But after the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the struggle to hold the Union together gave new importance to the Senate as the forum of national debate, and it found its highest prestige in this time of great orators: Webster, Clay and Calhoun. These men served so long that, in their perspective, Presidents came and went, but the Senate continued. When Andrew Jackson, an outsider...
...50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
...Snow lay 25 inches deep. The houses were dark, the beerhalls deserted. Everything about the little (pop. 3,700) copper-mining community of Houghton, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, suggested rural serenity...
...past, Greece has long supported itself on tourism and an economic mixture of goats and grapes, fish and ships. More recently, the country has tried hard to develop modern industry, has more than tripled industrial exports to $25 million in the past five years. All along, a valuable asset lay hidden: bauxite, the basic raw material from which aluminum is made. Now a French-Greek-American combine called Aluminum of Greece has built the country's largest plant, a $135 million factory on the Bay of Antikyra in the shadow of Mount Parnassus. The plant not only brings Greece...
...example of understanding an object as a whole, the student said that when he looked at a newspaper on an LSD high, he not only saw the object which lay on his doorstep every morning, but also single letters put together to form words, words combined to make phrases; he saw people working hard to write the articles and printers sweating over their type; he saw thousands reading it, ignoring it, or folding it into paper planes...