Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just two dollars in your pocket and you need about 30 to get home, a sure approach is to lay it on CRYSTAL MISS, who figures to run off with the second race at Rockingham today. It lost its last by 15 lengths, but you gotta have faith...
...weeks an uneasy peace had settled on the southern Sudan, aided by Prime Minister Mohammed Mahgoub's offer of amnesty to the rebels struggling for regional independence. The amnesty persuaded only five guerrillas to lay down their arms, and when it expired last week so did the peace. "The rebels are opening fire on our forces at Katari," the government radio suddenly reported. Another guerrilla band attacked a garrison in Equatoria province. To the west, the army opened fire on a "rebel camp" near Wau, reportedly killing...
...Dominican countryside, a bare-chested campesino whipped his straining oxen. "Go, you lovelies!" he cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo, it was of no concern...
...ambled back to Sinatra's 168-ft. chartered yacht Southern Breeze. What tantalized pursuing newsmen most was the notion that Frankie and Mia (who plays Allison Mackenzie in TV's Peyton Place), were married-or about to be. All anybody knew for sure, as the Southern Breeze lay at anchor off colorful Cape Cod that afternoon, was that among the fresh foodstuffs taken aboard at Hyannisport were several boxes of a body-building breakfast cereal called Fruit Loops...
...lay: New York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...