Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next week each participating organization will contribute at least five members representing the club's position on Vietnam. A council, composed of a representative of each group, would as sign speakers to match requests received by the United Ministry office, which will contact religious and lay groups in the Boston area and offer to set up a debate...
Toward daybreak in the hot, hushed land, the young woman lay in labor. "Now the light came in from the East, bringing a deep stillness so profound and so pervasive that it seemed as if the earth itself were listening." In that mystical moment, her son was born. Looking into his eyes, the mother saw at once "not only the quick intelligence and fearless spirit that animated her husband's flashing eyes, but also the deep purposefulness and true nobility that had shown in her father's steady brown eyes...
...Jilting, her grandmother is dying, and the story concludes with an eerie and wonderful description of death. "The blue light from the lamp shade drew into a tiny point in the center of her brain. Granny lay curled down within herself, amazed and watchful, staring at the point of light that was herself. It flickered and winked like an eye, quietly it fluttered and dwindled. God, give a sign! There was no sign. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light...
...that tells how she almost died of the flu during World War I-Author Porter describes how she snatched her life, and with it her independence, out of the jaws of death. "Death is death, she said. Silenced she sank easily through deeps under deeps of darkness until she lay like a stone at the farthest bottom of life, no longer aware yet alive with a peculiar lucidity and coherence; a minute fiercely burning particle of being that knew itself alone, that relied upon nothing beyond itself, being composed entirely of the stubborn will to live. Trust me, the hard...
...gourmandizing before he would need to go back to work. His client is a middle-aged widow who has sent friends and bigwigs thousands of copies of a book attacking the FBI. Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt finally traps two agents breaking and entering his house. With that for leverage, he can "push in J. Edgar Hoover's nose" and get the FBI off his client's innocent back...