Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business, together with campus revolts, had been largely inspired by Communists and "fellow travelers." The Marylander confided that he had heard "through channels" that demonstrators in Chicago had inserted razor blades in their shoes to kick the cops. All that the "hippies and yippies" can do, he said, is "lay down in a park and kick policemen with razor blades." In fact, not even the Chicago police claim that their men were kicked with blades. And, of course, there was simply no proof that either Communists or fellow travelers were responsible for the disruptions...
...Pone raced to New Cassel. Outside the laundry room with the police lay Mitchell's common-law wife on a stretcher. He had shot both her and her brother after an argument. Mitchell ignored the wounded woman's pleas to come out and give up the child. Then Pone took over. Pone used Negro psychology-sociology to make his case to Mitchell, also a Negro...
...fledgling company employed a 19-year-old engineer named Ezekiel Straw, who would later become Governor of New Hampshire, to lay out a brand-new town. Straw produced one of the most cohesive urban designs in the country. With the millyard as the heart of town, he provided for a commercial district, corporation tenements, housing lots, a cemetery, public buildings and six public commons. The company donated land for schools and churches. The first building-which is among those to be wrecked-went up in 1838, the last in 1915. Over the century of Amoskeag's existence, the architectural...
...congress drew 10,000 foreign ecclesiastical and lay pilgrims to a Carnpo Eucanstico in a 60-acre pasture outside Bogota. On a "Day of Conversion," 20 Andean Indians-who left aside their usual breechcloths to don city clothing for the first time-were publicly baptized, received first Communion and were confirmed all on the same day. Later, showing his concern for the shortage of priests in Latin America, the Pope ordained 161 priests and deacons in a group ceremony. Four of the new deacons have wives, and thus became Latin America's first married clergy under a 1967 authorization...
...transformed the light into nerve impulses that sent electrical signals to the brain. Under strong light, those impulses automatically blanked out the sense of smell and responses to temperature and humidity on which a moth relies as it flies around in search of a mate or a place to lay eggs...