Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mansfield's aim was "to lay down on our side as cohesive a statement of our aims as Hanoi did of its own" after the President's offer of "unconditional discussions" last April. By comparison with Mansfield's elaboration, Hanoi's terms were cohesive indeed. The Communists' principal, and unacceptable, condition is simply that "the internal affairs of the South Vietnamese people must be settled by the South Vietnamese people themselves in accordance with the program of the National Liberation Front-the Viet Cong's political arm. In other words, as Hanoi sees...
...tried to light a fire in the stove with his sodden matches, but did not succeed. When all his matches were spent, he and his wife wrapped themselves in their coats and some old rags they found there, and lay down...
...Pittsburgh's steel industry talks moved toward this week's strike dead line, it was apparent that the results, for once, would have little immediate effect on the economy. A strike would lay off 450,000 men and idle the nation's most important basic industry-but probably not for long, since President Johnson would almost certainly ask for an in junction under the Taft-Hartley law to keep the mills rolling. Even with a settlement, however, production is sure to tumble sharply as steel customers work off the record 14 million-ton stockpile that they have...
...status of a philosophy in 1951, when the Mutual Security Act was passed by Congress and an attempt was made to gather all the proliferating economic and military assistance plans into one coordinated program. So many administrators came and went that nothing really got coordinated; 2,000 steel plows lay rusting in Ethiopia, dams were built in a remote corner of Afghanistan, Asian potentates had fleets of cars bought with aid funds. This phase began to end in 1957 when President Eisenhower shifted the major emphasis of foreign aid from outright grants to development loans and investments. President Kennedy...
...buildings. They picked Britain's monumental Henry Moore (TIME cover, Sept. 21, 1959) to fill the tall order. Last week the largest Moore sculpture ever made arrived-a two-piece bronze whose shells are cast as thin as a paperback whodunit, yet still weigh nine tons. There it lay, surrounded by mystery and a pair of slat-sided crates...