Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers to task for "unexpected absences, temporary disappearances from the job, late starting and early finishing, too many conferences during working hours, and too much time spent on social activities on the job." At about the same time, Poland's Communist daily, Trybuna Ludu, warned Polish workers to lay off card playing and vodka drinking during working hours-practices that it charged are widespread. Reporting the "agony" of watching workers standing around idly, smoking cigarettes and chatting, Hungary's weekly Szabad FÖld recently described the country's labor situation as "desperate and terrible...
...third husband, Brajesh Singh, who died last fall in Moscow of a heart attack: "As you lay in your coffin in our dismal Moscow crematorium, strangers came up to look at your calm, beautiful face. It was very cold, and we stood there in fur coats ... all of you, my dear friends from the unfortunate Institute of World Literature...
Until recently, the lay teacher in a Roman Catholic parochial school was regarded as something of a necessary evil. Thanks to a decline in the number of nun teachers and a rapid growth of Catholic schools, laymen now constitute one-third of the parochial teaching force-and they are no longer content to accept second-class citizenship. In the past six weeks, teacher walkouts have hit three Chicago high schools, while last-minute negotiations narrowly averted similar strikes in New York City and Philadelphia. In the Los Angeles suburb of Mission Hills, 32 male lay teachers of Alemany High School...
...basic demand was for higher salaries. Although a few dioceses-notably San Francisco and New Orleans-pay their laymen salaries that compare favorably with public school scales, the vast majority in effect require teachers to subsidize the schools by personal sacrifice. At Alemany, for example, the starting wage of lay faculty members before the new contract was $4,000 a year, compared with $6,220 at nearby public high schools. In addition, most parochial school systems have painfully inadequate tenure, pension and medical-insurance programs, provide little chance for laymen to advance into administrative ranks. The inevitable result...
...Cambridge, and a number of councillors wanted Fitzgerald to return and give his views on this location. By a 5-4 vote, the Council defeated a resolution inviting the commissioner; the majority wanted no part of any Inner Belt. For the rest of winter and following spring the issue lay dormant...