Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight months after he had unceremoniously crowned himself Emperor of the French, Napoleon was up to his coronet in complications. His invasion of England, announced 18 months earlier, had bogged down on the beaches near Boulogne. His fleet floundered useless, bottled up by the British at Ferrol. His treasury lay empty, and all across Europe his prestige was ebbing. On Aug. 13, Talleyrand brought word that Austria and Russia were hastening to mount a massive attack on France...
...trouble, the commission found, lay largely in the guidelines themselves. Francis Keppel, former U.S. Commissioner of Education, had allowed the districts to choose between two methods of integration. One, plainly subject to gerrymandering, would set up geographic boundaries within which all children, Negro and white, would attend the same schools. The other would leave Negroes free to attend any school of their choice that had vacant space. Most of the districts, and almost all of those in the Deep South, opted for the second method, thus putting the full burden of integration on the Negro himself...
...real, crisis, Mrs. Bunting suggested, lay in the ability of the graduate schools to adapt to "the rather dramatic change in the way young women are planning their lives...
Many of these objects lay hidden in sealed chambers from the 3rd century until 1937 when French archaeologists excavated the crumbling city of Begram near the Hindu Kush, the mighty massif that barricades Afghanistan to the northeast. Roman glassware, Chinese lacquer work and Indian ivories were found together, revealing that the East and West were closer together in 300 B.C. than in the days of Marco Polo, 15 centuries later...
...Celibacy Outdated?, by the German lay theologian Ida Gorres (Newman, 950); The Priest: Celibate or Married, by Pierre Hermand, a former French Dominican who was laicized by the Vatican at his own request (Helicon, $3.75); Priestly Celibacy and Maturity, by the Rev. David O'Neill of New Zealand (Sheed & Ward...