Word: laying
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...Nameless Woe. In a new paperback called The Gospel According to Peanuts (Knox; $1.50), Short contends that the cartoon, whose creator is a lay preacher in the Church of God of Anderson, Ind., is a modern variety of prophetic literature, full of useful parables for the times. For example, "the doctrine of original sin is a theme constantly being dramatized in Peanuts." When Charlie Brown gloomily confides to Linus that he has "been confused right from the day I was born," he sums up the "nameless woe" that is at the heart of man's predicament...
...County (San Antonio), only half a dozen attract enough spectators to make judges even aware of their presence. Another 15 or so attract from two to eight people. As Judge Brown sees it, empty courtrooms adversely affect jurors. Concluding that no one cares, "a juror may be tempted to lay on a heavy sentence." Conversely, "he may decide that no one thinks the crime is serious and then assess a light sentence." Judge Brown is troubled: "When a man's liberty or life is at stake in my court, I like to think someone is interested...
Finally, after two years of gallivanting around, the steelhead comes home to spawn. It even does that the hard way. Salmon spawn in October; rainbow trout lay their eggs in the fall and hibernate sluggishly on the bottom at the first cold snap. But winter-from...
...become a railroad czar. In the House of Com mons last week, Minister of Transport Tom Fraser said that Beeching's offer to make a comprehensive study of all transportation problems "would not be practical," and Labor members demanded that unions be brought in on decisions to lay off workers and shut down lines. Beeching would brook no such interference. When he failed to win assurances of a hands-off policy, he dumped the whole railroad problem into the lap of Labor...
Around the corner at 111 Mt. Auburn Street is Seymour Swetzoff, custom framer. He does excellent work; as far as I know, there is no one else in Cambridge who can lay gold leaf around the corner of a frame, giving the illusion that there is no joint. More than this, Mr. Swetzoff is a knowledgeable and friendly man with varied interests (yoga, old master drawings) and a sense of humor. He also puts on more-or-less regular exhibits in his gallery room. His present show is of Max Swartz, who does pop art pictures of the Beatles--need...