Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, the U.S. has plans afoot to make things even more difficult for Hanoi. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plan to lay an electronic barrier across the demilitarized zone aims at reducing Hanoi's ability to slip men and supplies into the South. The barrier is expected to run into Laos as well, which will vastly increase Hanoi's difficulties, since many infiltration routes make an end run around the North-South border and snake through Laos...
Johnson's loudest applause-after the round that greeted his support for higher police pay-was evoked by his condemnation of racial violence in the slums. "Much can explain but nothing can justify the riots of 1967," he said. Condemning Black Power agitators, "whose interests lay in provoking others to destruction while they fled its consequences," Johnson declared: "These wretched, vulgar men-these poisonous propagandists-posed as spokesmen for the underprivileged and capitalized on the real grievances of the suffering people...
...march on the Graustarkian downtown city hall where Democratic Mayor Henry Maier holds sway. They were checked by Maier's ironfisted curfew. Earlier this month, the Groppians paraded through the Polish-dominated South Side and were met by abuse, firecrackers, beer cans and rage. Last week, while Groppi lay ill with summer flu and exhaustion, 80 of his stalwarts descended on the mayor's office, chanting "Sock it to me, Black Power" and "Mayor Maier, you punk!" For four hours, while cops stood by passively under orders from Maier to keep their cool, the commandos waited...
...lay: Pope Paul VI, 69, with a cold, intestinal cramps, nausea and intermittent fever that brought him back from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and caused him to cancel all appointments; Nellie Connolly, 47, wife of Texas' Democratic Governor, recuperating in Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute after removal of a benign, olive-size growth on her jaw; General Earle G. Wheeler, 59, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recovering at Walter Reed Hospital from a "minor" heart attack that was disclosed by the Pentagon after two days of denials that he suffered...
...asks, "at Harvard or Yale if a prof gave a surprise test in March on work covered in October? Everyone knows what would happen; that's why they don't do it." In this "temple of worship for right answers, the way to get ahead is to lay plenty of them on the altar." The whole system, insists Holt, convinces most students that "school is mainly a place where you follow meaningless procedures to get meaningless answers to meaningless questions...