Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs, we are to put national interests first, and, hopefully and incidentally, moral interests as well. Do you not, by such conclusions regarding the "moral purpose" of limited war, lay bare the hypocrisy by which we justify our action in time of war? The depth of the evil about us is not a call to retribution but to greatness. Are we not to be called atheists when we believe and act upon the belief that there are gulfs between "right" men and "wrong" men so great that no bridge can be thrown across them? Must we accept...
...while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history textbooks, approved by the Ministry of Education, implies that the blame for World War II lay not so much with Japanese aggression but with economic pressure exerted against Japan by "the ABCD Ring" (America, Britain, China and the Dutch). General Hideki Tojo, who coined the wartime ABCD rationale in the first place, is no longer pictured in the textbooks as a militarist on trial...
...single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul-ups in distribution; plants lay idle for days waiting for raw materials. Kim's flying Red horse clearly needed outside help-and quickly...
...meeting of the American Society of Dowsers Inc. this week in Vermont. Man has taught himself to prospect for new sources of water by seismic refraction and aerial photography. Since World War II, engineers have gone into the remotest valleys to dig wells, build dams, cut canals and lay pipelines. In the U.S., some $10 billion is spent annually on dams, waterworks, sewage-treatment plants, pipelines, canals and levees...
...these rollicking journeys lay a new, American style of community, guided by a new, American breed of businessman, the booster, who promoted construction of railroads, saw to the piping of water, digging of sewers, building of schools, laying out of sidewalks, streets and parks. Boosters also founded the pioneer newspapers, in many cases little more than advertising broadsides and forums for the communal chauvinists...