Word: laying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miller's luck evened up three minutes later. A shot by Kevin Burke bounced off the crossbar and the third-line center had only to nudge the puck as it lay invitingly on the goal line...
...hunting in battalion-or larger-sized operations-and so, too, showing the flag of allied support, were the South Vietnamese, the Koreans, Australians and New Zealanders. The other G.I.s had little luck compared with the 173rd's: whether out of tactic or sheer prudence, the Viet Cong lay low. That, in a measure, deprived the U.S. of the firm point Johnson wanted to make: that to underestimate his resolve could be disastrous. So the U.S. made it in other ways. The bombers usually busy over North Viet Nam were put to work blasting the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...from a 1641 Puritan attack on Anglican Prayer Book worship as the work of "mere Surplice and Service-Book men, such as cannot doe so much as a Porter in his frocke; for he doth Service, and the Priest onely sayes service." But Davies adds that behind these polemics lay a strong theological conviction that set forms of worship deprived people of the gift of prayer and could not meet the differing needs of congregations...
...economy; they worry over inflation, wonder about possible tax increases, fret, at least along Wall Street, about renewed rumors that the Government contemplates an excess-profits tax similar to that imposed on industry during the Korean War. And if only because of their uncertainty, they are starting to lay off stocks that even though presumably solid are still relatively cheap and considered to be speculative. At the old year's end and the new year's start, the heavy buying was in blue chips. Among these, of course, were steel stocks, and presidential approval of Roger Blough...
...stayed that way. But that, he felt, was enough: "It matters not how small the beginnings may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever." He could scarcely have envisioned his responsibility, at least in part, for the fact that thousands of dhoti-clad Indians lay down across roads and railroads, that hundreds of U.S. citizens, white and black, would be flung into Alabama jails. He was content to enunciate a principle rather than pursue a practice-he never did go back to the uncomfortable jail cell...