Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time Is Coming." In the face of such wide and widening divergence, the President decided that it was time to lay it on the line to Congress and simultaneously put Hanoi on notice that "the string is running out." Rusk reviewed the futile peace probes of the past five weeks...
While the Virginia tax is only $1.50 a year, residents who have not been voting must pay for three years-a total of $5.01 with penalties and interest. Attorney Robert L. Segar in a companion suit pointed out that the tax lay most heavily on Virginia Negroes, 54% of whom have family incomes below the Federal Government's $3,000 poverty line. "The tax represents a trap, not a test," he asserted. "A person who cannot afford three meals a day is going to think twice about paying for the right to vote." Negro Attorney Joseph Jordan noted that...
...bills, he tried to buy off his captors, then, dressed in pajamas, ran outside, screaming "Don't kill me!" until two soldiers knocked him down and jumped on him. His body was found three days later in a ditch 30 miles from Lagos. Not far away lay Sir Abubakar, also dead...
Inborn Defects. The first suggestion that finger and palm prints might be associated with disease came only 30 years ago, almost half a century after Sir Francis Gallon linked them with genetics, and helped to lay the foundations of a science now called dermatoglyphics. Dr. Harold Cummins of Tulane University noted a distinctive pattern in victims of mongolism (Down's syndrome). Another Tulane team, led by Dr. Alfred R. Hale, showed that many patients with inborn heart defects had palm-ridge abnormalities, whereas those with heart disease or disorders acquired after birth usually had normal prints...
...make a trilogy but for some reason had to pare Eroica down to the less esthetic form of a double episode. The first, or scherzo, movement begins during the disastrous Warsaw uprising of 1944, when Polish patriots attacked their German oppressors, expecting aid from Russian forces that lay watchfully beyond the Vistula until the city was destroyed. In this film, the reluctant Reds are pretty much ignored. Munk's antihero (Edward Dziewonski) is a self-seeking womanizer who cynically boasts that he survived the occupation by "buying and selling." He shares his easy-to-bed wife (Barbara Polomska) with...