Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university is to lay any claim to station at the frontiers of civilization, then it has an obligation, as part of its public function, to oppose racial discrimination, wherever it occurs. Against its most entrenched form, in South Africa, Harvard must take its most drastic action. Even is divestment will not immediately help South Africans, Harvard can clear its own name of complicity and Harvard can set an example for others. There is no excuse...
...first of these expired on Thursday, the Reagan Administration sent some 400,000 "nonessential" federal workers around the country home at noon, supposedly shutting down the Government. Democrats in Congress accused the President of staging an unnecessary "Hollywood extravaganza" to put pressure on them. Reagan retorted that the blame lay with "the majority party in the House." Actually, it had been the Republican-controlled Senate rather than the Democratic-controlled House that had held up most appropriations bills...
...issue this time around is wife beating; the story, as usual, is based on a true incident. On March 9, 1977, Francine Hughes, a Michigan housewife, resorted to desperate action against the ex-husband who had beaten her repeatedly over more than a decade. As he lay sleeping in a drunken stupor, she poured gasoline around his bed, lit a match, packed the children into the car, and drove off as the house went up in flames. The TV movie, written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg from a book by Faith McNulty, tells the story of Francine's marriage, mostly...
...expected tough line of the speech if he wanted to respond favorably to Reagan's address or to overtures made by Shultz in private. Most analysts predicted that Gromyko would stick to his original text. "He will probably give us a good deal of tough stuff and lay out old positions as new Soviet initiatives," says a senior Kremlinologist in Washington. "But there may well be a subtle line or two indicating whether the Russians are ready to do some real business...
Meanwhile, rescue workers were sifting through the embassy wreckage. The blast had left a crater 26 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. deep. Beside it lay the remains of the lethal van, in a burned and twisted heap. Ambulances wailed as armed guards lowered their weapons menacingly to keep curiosity seekers away. Bodies were scattered amid the rubble, some without limbs; screams and groans could be heard everywhere. Among the wounded was Fawzi Yazeji, a Lebanese guard, who was taken to the nearby Abu Jawdeh hospital for treatment. Said he: "Thank God this didn't happen two hours earlier...