Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAY Manila, Philippines...
Cryptic as that utterance was (and it committed France to nothing), it was a well-timed political gesture. Predictably, it sent a glow across both the country and the Continent. Behind the maneuver lay an uncomfortable fact: with the Dec. 5 voting just around the corner, De Gaulle's once commanding lead in France-Soir's respected Public Opinion Institute poll had shrunk by 4% (from 61% to 57%). Other polls showed that France's 29% "undecided" vote was breaking in favor of every candidate but the general...
Speaking for the court, Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard declared that the U.S. Constitution does not automatically command a warning to suspects. Lumbard called it "highly undesirable to lay down a rule which would deprive police of the opportunity to question suspects and to use such statements as are found to have been given voluntarily and to have been procured fairly." Said Lumbard: "In our country a most valuable right of law-abiding citizens, who make up the great majority of our people, is the right to be protected against lawbreakers and criminal interference with their liberty and property...
...revised pledge, gradually introduced into U.S. churches, asked Catholics not to condemn but to "promote what is morally and artistically good" in movies. The ranks of Legion reviewers, previously dominated by a coterie of middle-aging Catholic college alumnae, were expanded to include knowledgeable lay and clerical film buffs, ranging from Jesuit professors of communications arts to English teachers, writers and admen...
...quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near death, but Paula, who never left his side, pulled him through. In the end, reality blighted romance. Conrad ran out of money, Paula ran back to her prince; she later married an opera singer and lived luxuriously ever after...