Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transformation. Then there would be open to Europe, as a whole, prospects in keeping with its resources and its capabilities." His immediate goal was, no doubt, his pet Europe des patries (Europe of the fatherlands), which would cap the Common Market with a political organization where ultimate decision lay with heads of governments...
...lay: Spencer Tracy, 63, in his Los Angeles home, with a continuing respiratory ailment complicated by diabetes; Cincinnati Reds' Manager Fred Hutchinson, 44, in his physician brother's Seattle home, with a malignancy in an undisclosed area; Brendan Behan, 40, in Dublin's Meath Hospital, with pneumonia and head injuries after he was found lying in a pool of blood. He had been out celebrating his exit from the Royal City of Dublin Hospital...
...Israel and Jordan, has throughout its history been the focus of countless jurisdictional squabbles among Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Copts and Armenians. Donning white liturgical vestments, the Pope celebrated Mass upon an austere portable altar set up near the place designated as the tomb in which Jesus' body lay between his death and Resurrection. The church, like the streets outside, was jammed to capacity...
...Plato, Marx, Tolstoy and Shakespeare. Tutors supervise the work, which is often livened by such guest lecturers as T. S. Eliot, André Malraux, Marc Chagall and Jacques Maritain. To check doctoral theses for accuracy, the committee calls in outside scholars who know the field. To combat jargon, "lay readers" with no expertise make sure that all theses are "interesting and comprehensible to any cultivated person...
...unwearable ties or too-flimsy negligees (total returns equal about 8% of the year's sales), stores baited their welcome with year-end clearance sales. Because most stores do not like to tie up their money in big inventories, they usually borrow against expected sales at Christmastime to lay in the big holiday stock they need, like to get rid of whatever is left quickly in order to cut their interest payments and clear their stocks for spring merchandise. "Business between Christmas and New Year's is always fabulous," says Robert Daly, Chicago district manager for Montgomery Ward...