Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until recently, was that it was done mainly by historians and lawyers. They had definite contributions to make, but they could not even raise, let alone solve, significant economic problems. Eli Heckscher recognized the importance of the adjective in 'economic history'; he saw that while the questions and solutions lay partly in political, social, and religious history, they were fundamentally economic problems...
Usurped Powers. Also on De Gaulle's mind was the United Nations, which for months has been crippled by the dispute over assessments for U.N. peacekeeping operations-for which, of course, the French have not been willing to pay. The problem, decided De Gaulle, lay not in the U.N. Charter-which, "with Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kaishek, I had the honor of working out"-but in the fact that the General Assembly had usurped the powers delegated by the charter to the veto-conscious Security Council. "Under the pressure of events in Korea, in Suez, in Hungary...
...concerns of everyman and the technical results of science. The few scientists who try today to link the two are rarely highly regarded by their colleagues. It provides an enlightening change of viewpoint to return to a book, such as Loeb's Mechanistic Conception of Life, which views the lay and scientific worlds as inextricable...
...more than likely, the Secretary was less defining policy than offering a simple justification for it. President Johnson is not known for impulsiveness, and behind his decision to order the bombings, there probably lay more subtle motives than vengeance. Furthermore, he knows as well as the press that Sunday's air strikes, and more systematic escalation, will affect but little the Viet Cong's capacity to wage war. The New York Times estimates that the Viet Cong receives less than 20% of its personnel and arms from the North...
...your hands," said Yovicsin. "We've done all we can for you and you'll have to take it the rest of the way yourselves." Then, as they always do, he and his assistants left the meeting, leaving the seniors to talk to the players who lay around waiting in the packed room...