Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Major James T. Boddie Jr., 36, of Baltimore, a Phantom fighter-bomber pilot who has flown 153 missions over North and South Viet Nam since he arrived seven months ago. Winner of nine Air Medals and recommended for both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Silver Star, Boddie can lay bombs or napalm within 30 meters of his own troops and take as much steel as the Viet Cong can dish out. Yet he is able to say of Stateside antiwar demonstrators: "I'm here to protect their right to dissent...
...mangled men. He allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn, the job done, Joel recalls looking at himself: hands encrusted with blood to the wrists, legs thick with edema and dirty bandages. He lay under a tree and cried for the first time since he was a boy in Winston-Salem...
...felt strong enough to make another play to extend his interests across the Saudi Arabian peninsula, perhaps hoping to add the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf to his coffers. His boardinghouse reach even stretches southward across the Gulf of Aden, where he is aiding Somali terrorists who lay claim to one-fourth of the northern territory of Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya. The Kenyan government, incensed by evidences of Egyptian aid to the rebels, called on Nasser to cease supplying them and said that it is ready to go to war with Somalia unless the border conflict ceases...
...they represented. It was a major display of maturing political organizations as South Korea moves from the traditional Oriental politics of the elite to popular party rule. "Now that the election is over," Park told Koreans in a brief victory statement, "it is time for all of us to lay aside our differences and work together to modernize our country...
...tensor lights and stainless steel. Grandmothers cheerfully took off their shoes to clamber around in Lucas Samaras' glittering, mirror-encrusted Alice-in-Wonderland rabbit warren, Corridor, 1967. Hippies gazed dreamily through the barred door of Edward Kienholz's The State Hospital into a Lysol-scented interior where lay the pathetic form of a lunatic...