Word: laying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last November, Thelma outdid herself. She had watched restlessly as Governor Carroll, a Presbyterian lay preacher and political gadfly, proved so prone to travel that he became known as "the Flying Deacon." She also felt he had failed to provide solid leadership on tax cuts over Kentucky's ineffective legislature, which meets only 60 days every two years. When the legislature left Frankfort without doing anything to soothe the state's increasingly irate taxpayers, Thelma started watching the Governor's schedule. Aha, she spotted a trip. She polished her plans...
...Carter faced Congress last week for his State of the Union address, he confronted one of the most serious political problems of his presidency: his inability to lay claim to the unshakable support of any single constituency. Even though the legislative branch is filled with members of his own party, they received his speech with almost as little enthusiasm as they showed the pariah Richard Nixon in his last State of the Union message...
...punch is the final element in a carefully considered formula for success. When the N.H.L. mushroomed from six to 18 teams a decade ago, most new franchises tried to trade for instant respectability, lavishing huge contracts on fading veterans. But Islander General Manager William Torrey concluded that the future lay in the future: "You can't build a championship club out of someone else's rejects." So the Islanders searched the amateur ranks for talented youngsters and set them to playing cautious, defense-minded hockey until they matured. Says Torrey: "We had to play kids, and at first...
...applied to situations that arise in professional life. Professional ethics are, almost by definition, situational: they teach one how to react to moral dilemmas, how best to conduct oneself in a given set of circumstances. They rarely, however, strike at basic, absolute moral principles of right and wrong--they lay out the accepted lines of conduct, but rarely examine the difference between what is accepted and what is right. They set the standards of a profession, but they cannot set the guidelines for a moral life...
...allowed. The Crimean Tartars were brought from Crimea in 1944--it was a Stalin decision. In one day in 1944 the whole population of Crimean Tartars was brought from Crimea. They were brought in railway cars to Uzbekistan. On the way half of them died. Dead people lay near those not yet dead...