Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuttle noted that the Georgia charter listed very specific qualifications for a lawmaker (age, residence, absence of a criminal record). To allow the legis lature to judge a duly elected member by "undefined, unknown and even constitutionally questionable standards," he said, "shocks not only the judicial, but also the lay sense of justice...
...debilitating, Pierce County Prosecutor John G. McCutcheon contended. As McCutcheon told ft, Boehme and Mary were working around the family's new 40-ft. cabin cruiser last June 29 when Mary was struck on the head by a wooden plank "under very peculiar circumstances." As she lay half stunned, Boehme gave her an injection. Next day, at Tacoma's St. Joseph Hospital, where Mary was admitted in critical condition, Dr. Stanley Durkin was puzzled by her symptoms. Miraculously, Mary rallied, and by 7:30 that night was in such good condition that Durkin went home. Two hours later...
...judge and two lay assessors will deliver the verdict this week. There was little doubt of what it would be, since Prosecutor Temushkin was already demanding the maximum twelve-year sentence for Sinyavsky and eight years for Daniel...
...worst is still to come for Rhodesia. The decline in demand induced by the trade embargoes has forced manufacturers to lay off workers and the credit squeeze has forced small retailers out of business. British Prime Minister Wilson and Dr. Kaunda of Zambia have kept their most effective weapon in reserve. They could still halt all trade between Rhodesia and neighboring Zambia, a measure which would do serious damage to Rhodesia's secondary industry and her foreign exchange position...
...with a .38-cal. slug. The action in Mickey Spillane's 18th book is embossed with his usual delicate imagery ("The sun was thumbing its nose at the night"), characterization ("On some people skin is skin, but on her it was an invitation to dine"), and grammar ("You lay there, kid"; "I thought I could discern shouts"). As always, the forces of law, order and decency prove no match for Spillane's private eye, whose impatience with those virtues amounts to a crusade. The people who lay around reading Spillane books-50 million copies sold to date-must...