Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notorious namesake, though less successfully. A hard-bitten Harlem Negro, he spent a dozen years in Comstock, the Elmira Reformatory and Sing Sing for crimes ranging from narcotics addiction to armed robbery. Out on parole in 1961, Jesse went West and straight -even to the extent of becoming a lay minister in the All Nations Church of God in San Francisco. Last week, in the city's crime-rife Mission district, a new James gang was riding high-training school dropouts, finding jobs for the unemployed, and putting money in the bank rather than making withdrawals at gunpoint...
...planes as a result." The hottest, most heavily defended area, of course, is the 60 sq. mi. surrounding Hanoi; American pilots call it "the Barrel." "You just develop tunnel vision," says Captain Richard E. Guild, 27, "and simply go right in." Pilots have only 20 or 30 seconds to lay their bombs on target, and they cannot afford to think about anything else...
Cohen reminded Bundy of Secretary of State Dean Rusk's request to the Viet Cong to lay down their arms and join the free elections...
...land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate Arroyo Colorado became a conduit delivering the full fury of the flood. Beulah had closed the highways north; southward seethed the Rio Grande; eastward lay the Gulf, and in from the west swept the flood. Harlingen was trapped...
...then, 3,000 federal troops were roaring across Biafra; in a few days they had reached the outskirts of Enugu and begun shelling it from the high green hills overlooking the capital. "Fathers and mothers," Gowon asked the Eastern Ibos, "rise up and save your loved ones and homes. Lay down your arms, not your lives. The war is against Ojukwu, not against the Ibos...