Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could have confidence in old Jerry Adair, journeyman third base-man, who chewed tobacco and hunched over the plate in arthritic concentration. One hesitates to say it, but the team was Andrews and Adair. In the mixture of their youth and age, the identity of their concentration, lay the secret of Red Sox success...
...East have stopped flowing, and harvests have been disrupted. The exodus of skilled Ibos has crippled the North. Long range development projects, like the Niger River hydroelectric dam, have been delayed or suspended. Perhaps most devastating, though, the insurrection is likely to discourage foreign investment long after the soldiers lay down their arms...
Reason for Secrecy. More often than not, underground churches are as clandestine as spy rings, have neither a name nor a formal organization, limit membership to a trusted few. In this sense, at least, they resemble the cells of the zealous Catholic lay organization Opus Dei (TIME, May 12). A major reason for so much secrecy is that the interfaith membership includes renewal-minded priests and nuns who fear the wrath of their bishops for taking part in illegal services.* Nonetheless, many of these clerics regard the services at underground churches as far more meaningful than Catholicism's official...
...Sport Fisheries and Wildlife offered the welcome news that no fewer than 8,500,000 mallard ducks will take to the flyways this year. For those with a palate for venison, there are 16 million deer roaming the U.S. countryside. The 110 species of game that hunters can now lay their sights on include scores of creatures that their grandfathers never even heard...
...three boys and one girl darted out of the crowd and sat down in the middle with their legs crossed. The crowd cheered. Then eight policemen descended on the group, swinging their clubs with hatched strokes. In a few seconds they straightened up and walked away. The four figures lay unconscious, crumpled, with blood streaming from their heads and bodies...