Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winthrop's Guest Suite, however, the day's events couldn't have seemed more remote. Visiting E.H. Carr, the noted British historian who is spending six weeks at Harvard, was like stepping onto a very white, very soft cloud and drifting off into a sky of milk. As he lay back on his sofa and slowly fingered his white hair, Carr talked about the past, present, future and himself with a simple, contented smile and an almost unbelievable optimism...
...leading 49 to 46, Harvard's Barry Williams stole the ball from little Ray Carazo and was fouled. He made the first shot--it was to be Harvard's last point for 4 1/2 agonizing minutes. Williams missed his second shot and Carazo whizzed down the middle for a lay up to give Penn a four-point lead. As the Crimson's fast break moved into operation, Williams was fouled again. This time he missed both free throws...
...Lyndon Johnson's admirers saw it, the President deserved all the credit for breaking up the legislative ice jam. Others, however, insisted that Lyndon's poking and prodding had little to do with it, that President Kennedy had already laid the groundwork for congressional action. The truth lay somewhere in between...
...that they are accepting bets on the sex and names of the royal tots-to-be. George, Mary and Philip are 10-to-l favorites for Elizabeth's baby, but the odds makers are covering all angles. For example, says Bookie Harry Garcia, "we're ready to lay 50,000 to 1 against the Queen-Her Majesty, that is-having a boy and calling him Prince Nikita...
...aboard, armed with a billy and an electric cattle prod. He jammed the billy in Merritt's belly, and he applied the prod to the photographer's neck. With the aid of a deputy, he threw Merritt off the bus, there prodded him some more as he lay on the ground. All this was caught on film by Merritt's unmolested colleague, Cameraman Ed Jones of the Birmingham News. Merritt's equipment-$800 worth-was smashed with such enthusiasm that the six Negro pupils, who stayed inside, thought they had heard pistol shots...