Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national average of at least three children per family, Debre last week proposed 1) priority in apartments for young couples with children, 2) tax exemptions to families in the year they produce a fourth child, 3) a more "receptive government attitude toward unwed mothers." He also wants Frenchmen to lay off the bottle, because "each generation we lose a total of 500,000 persons due to overindulgence...
...novel quite differently from the way Kafka himself might have adapted it for the screen. Kafka wrote about the individual: his private despair, and his search for himself and a place in the world. Welles' version contains much more social criticism. For Kafka the impenetrable bureaucracy of the Lay Court and the unnamable guilt of the main character, Joseph K., are symbols of the helplessness of the individual soul. For Welles they are social references meant to be interpreted almost literally. In the book, Joseph K. dies stabbed through the heart, with the faces of his executioners fatly pressing close...
...downtown to protest the arrest of a Negro leader. A young New York Negro named Bruce Gordon, a member, oddly enough, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, urged the crowd to march on the city jail. Police moved in with tear gas and fire hoses. The following night, Negroes lay down in the streets to stop traffic. When police began hauling roadblockers away, a pitched battle erupted. Negroes hurled rocks and bottles. Again the police dispersed the crowds with gas, concussion grenades, and the threat of riot guns. All told, 167 adults and children were arrested, and four people were...
...instituting an intensive individual interview program with ten volunteers this summer, the Committee hopes to lay the ground work for a case-aid program in the fall. Because of the inadequate records and under staffing of the state mental hospitals, the interviewers are indispensable in obtaining additional information about the attitudes and problems of patients, LaMonte explained...
...Where is China?" asked Czar Mikhail Romanov. "Is it rich? What can we lay claim to?" Russian claims (Manchuria, Outer Mongolia, Sinkiang) caused friction for centuries, down to the present...