Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capable of pointing out to him the area where she had last seen Gene. Thrashing wildly down the hill and shouting his sons' names as he ran, Goodman was brought up short by a horrible sight. Gene, his clothes nearly all torn off and his body badly mangled, lay dead in the stream...
Visconti has tackled his responsibility with the same fanatical concern for factual accuracy that Richard Brooks demonstrated in making In Cold Blood (TIME, Dec. 22). He had authorities in Algiers rip up a street to lay down trolley tracks that had been there during the period of the story (1938-39), and even ordered a reprinting of cigarette packages to match those sold at the time. Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness...
...basis for compromise might be that the Viet Cong would lay down their arms and agree to stop their violence in return for political rights-much as the French Communists did in a deal with De Gaulle in 1945. Then, in the next South Vietnamese election in 1970, the Viet Cong could put up candidates for office, along with the non-Communist parties. There is some doubt that many Reds would want to run for office in government-controlled areas-city people tend to equate the Viet Cong with assassins, and quite a few have old scores to settle. Though...
Kanuth, recovering his blocked shot, tried again and made the lay-up. Then Barth Royer, hustling and rebounding aggressively, threw in a long jumper...
...came up or, more exactly, failed to come up. "I said, 'How about the white-black problem? I've noticed here you have four whites out of seven on the council.' They said, 'Four what?' I said, 'Well...er...excuse me, but there's a problem here...let's lay our cards on the table. Let's be sure we can live with this group and so forth,' and they said, 'No problem, no problem.' I found it hard to believe but I pressed them and they assured me. Then I said, 'There's also a little problem of geography...