Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge that the rescuers had discriminated in favor of whites and reported that of the estimated 2,000 evacuated, more than 600 were Congolese and Indians-and evacuation of Congolese had been halted at Leopoldville's own request. The real danger to peace, said Spaak, lay not in the Congo action, but in the radical Africans' "scarcely dissimulated will to separate Africa from Europe and even perhaps to pit the black man against the white...
...actual wall then (the Dutch had set it up for protection against the Indians), a real canal ran across Canal Street, and a country road called "Verdant Lane" wound about the west end of what is now Times Square. East of Riverside Drive between 125th and 132nd Streets lay "Mother David's Valley...
...Buddha?a vision the Vietnamese monks were to borrow for their own purposes. Accompanied by his favorite monks and nuns, Buddha was content to be fed by local admirers and once scandalized his band by eating in the home of a courtesan. His last incarnation completed, at 80 Buddha lay down in a sola grove to die, passing out of the endless cycle of life into the great nirvana...
...order to beef up the Giants' sputtering ground attack. Notre Dame Quarterback John Huarte, who was being fought over by the A.F.L.'s New York Jets and the N.F.L.'s Philadelphia Eagles, was asked: "How does it feel to know you'll be able to lay your hands on $125,000 or $150,000 in a few days?" Shrugged Huarte: "It's just money...
France's Minister of Agriculture Edgard Pisani set would-be wine lovers fermenting last July when he advised colleagues at a Cabinet meeting to lay in a few casks of 1964 because it was probably going to be the best vintage since 1921. To insiders, however, this showed him about as wine-wise as a gas-station attendant in Marseille...