Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long Christmas lay-off was costly for Harvard as they were repeatedly outplayed by the aggressive Eagles. Sloppy stick-handling and bad timing marred the Crimson effort as B.C. intercepted numerous passes. Two thefts were converted into scores past goalie Captain Bruce Durno...
...stabilize South Viet Nam and to transform the military struggle into a political one. The greatest mistake of the past in Viet Nam has been to underestimate the Communists, whether Viet Minh or Viet Cong. They are widespread and militarily strong -why should we think they would lay down their arms to become the "loyal opposition" in a republican government in "the unliberated South"? Only a strong and stable government and a politically mature people can successfully compromise with the Communists and incorporate them into the regime. Only when the Communists have no weapons, or have been disarmed, will they...
Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a rousing Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and goes on to lay claim to vast tracts of land that either never were German or have been ceded to other countries after two lost wars.* Instead, Bonn has asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly...
...must admit that they suffer from a kind of superman mentality." Europeans also resent the fact that U.S. firms deal brusquely or not at all with trade unions, discontinue such traditions as the German breakfast break on company time or the Spanish siesta, and, unlike paternalistic European firms, lay off workers in recessions. When ITT recently considered buying Belgium's second best football team in order to get its stadium for employee recreation, cynical Belgians quickly predicted that ITT would undoubtedly cut the team from eleven players to nine...
...reflected wide expectation that the Reserve Board might tighten up on credit or that the Government would pre-empt borrowable funds. Auto sales dropped to about 8,400,000, 7% below their 1966 level. "Mystified businessmen are still waiting for the frantic days that they were told lay ahead," complains Research Director Albert Sommers of the National Industrial Conference Board...