Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple, earnest pleas. His condemnation of the war was too unreasonable: he denounced not only the policy employed, but the very goals that the policy sought to achieve. You can deal with a man so long as he's willing to state his position within the terms that you lay out for him; but if he refuses to do that, there's nothing left but to ignore him. So Ernest Gruening was, for all his insight and suffering, someone to be tolerated and ignored. Maybe his problem is that, like the New York dailies, his uncompromising morality has simply become...
Many students complained that they had far too little opportunity to explore fields of interest related to their own specialty but not allowed for because of over-rigorous departmental requirements. As in all other such circumstances we stoutly maintained that the only remedy for this grievance lay in the individual department concerned. Sometimes such intellectual curiosity may be dilettantism, sometimes in part at least a good excuse for not doing something important but difficult. Yet it might be more valuable to try to satisfy it than to force a student to conform to regulations that may be rigid, outmoded...
...Hotel, tour members lunched with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who warned against a precipitate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam. At week's end the travelers jetted off to Indonesia for conferences with President Suharto and Foreign Minister Adam Malik. Visits to South Korea and Japan lay ahead before they crossed the international dateline on the trip home...
Chris Gallagher dropped in a lay-up three seconds from the end, but the clock ran out with the ball rolling on the floor...
...there was no agreement, he warned, he would evolve his own proposals. Some sources think that they will probably feature a titular presidency in a British-style parliamentary democracy, based on universal suffrage, as well as more regional autonomy for East and West Pakistan. Ayub has a year to lay the foundations for his ideas while opposition leaders struggle for the succession...