Word: laying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House switchboard more than any other single event. Calls came in from all over the world, but the lines were so busy that only a fraction got through. People would call in distress and just sob, "Get me the East Room," which was where Kennedy's body lay...
...cloud of dust. "I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em," he frequently said, and he was right. But whatever his intellectual insecurities, Hayes was confident that he was receiving life's message loud and clear. Rectitude, he was certain, lay in Midwestern values, rock-ribbed Republicanism and college football. Just as surely, permissiveness led to social cataclysm, liberalism to national weakness. He built his personal philosophy on the lessons of war and football, and he saw numerous parallels between the two. His heroes were Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Crimson hoopsters, undaunted by the Huskies' heavy onslaught, responded to the challenge and were able to control the pace once again. Guard Karen Ueda drove past two Huskies for a lay-up to give Harvard a decisive ten-point lead...
...written by the late James Agee, whose eager eyes peer out from a 1937 portrait that is one of the 219 remarkable photographs in this long overdue retrospective volume. No captions are needed to display the range and depth of Evans' artistry. He knew the truth that lay in the luminous surfaces of things, whether they were the grim visages of farmers, the abstracted faces of New York subway riders, the pocked brick of a city tenement or the burnished beauty revealed in a pair of pliers and a wrench. Evans' compositions have a classical austerity, though...
Point guard Lisa Bernstein hit a lay-up after a picture-perfect three-on-one break to extend the Harvard lead to 19-8. Manhattanville then called time out, but everyone on the court and the 150 spectators knew that the cagers were on their way to an easy...