Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Would Kennedy have become involved in Viet Nam to the extent that Johnson eventually did? The answer is unknowable. Many Kennedy loyalists think not, though their opinion is not disinterested. They point out that Kennedy was eminently a pragmatist; he would have seen the morass that lay in wait. Kennedy was a superbly self-assured man. He had already proved himself in war and had no need to do so again. With his keen sense of public relations, his loyalists believe, with his knowledge of the uses of the media, he would simply have decided that Viet...
...construction crews lay brick upon brick and the architects debate the true meaning of space, I hear the terrifying whirr which no amount of novocaine or promises of soft ice cream will make go away. Thomas J. Slegel, GSAS...
...supposed winners from the reform--Indian and colored voters--are now placed in an unpleasant buffer position. Many of their leaders have urged a boycott of the segregated chambers of Parliament, while others are more willing to lay down for their former oppressors. So a new twist is added to apartheid...
...shell glasses, Martin Feldstein, the scholarly chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, patiently explained once again the harmful impact on the U.S. economy of a succession of $200 billion deficits. Finally Michigan Democrat Howard Wolpe asked: "What on earth does the Treasury Secretary say to you when you lay out these arguments?" Feldstein laughingly replied: "I think you'll have to discuss the Treasury Secretary's views with the Treasury Secretary. You can't get two for the price of one today...
...restaurant parking-lot exit. His rented station wagon tumbled some 15 feet into the water-and mud-filled Delaware Canal, coming to rest upside down. When the car was discovered four hours later, Fischbein was still strapped behind the wheel, and Savitch, along with her pet Siberian husky, lay in the back seat, drowned...