Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superstition, of disease, of tyrants, of boundaries, of the earth itself. One ought to be free of ignorance. In 1890 fewer than 7% of Americans aged 14 to 17 attended high school. By 1920 the number had reached one-third, by 1950 three-quarters, by 1970 nearly 90%. Whatever lay in darkness was to be illuminated. Whatever stood whole and secure was to be smashed, indeed was assumed already disintegrated in its essential form. Eliot began The Waste Land bemoaning "a heap of broken images," but wound up shoring "fragments against ruins." Since life evidently lay in pieces, perhaps...
...person in the room doubted Franklin Roosevelt's sincerity, but neither was anyone in the slightest doubt as to where lay the sympathy, the potent human partisanship, of this President of the United States. He was against Germany, against the aggressor, against totalitarianism, against Adolf Hitler the dictator and Adolf Hitler the man perhaps...
When the 6½-hour battle ended, five Americans lay dead, as did two Vietnamese chauffeurs for the embassy who were apparently caught in the crossfire...
...underestimated the Lebanese capacity for settling old scores. Realizing almost too late the extent of the danger, the Reagan Administration asked the Israelis to postpone their withdrawal. Though the Israelis delayed their move by a few days, Washington concluded that the only hope for stability over the short term lay in shoring up the Gemayel government and the relatively new and untried Lebanese Army...
...still horrified by a single memory. He was at high school in Peking and was awakened one night. A "struggle" meeting was going on in the school courtyard, the Red Guards struggling against two teachers and beating them. He crept down to the courtyard at 5 a.m. and there lay the bodies of the two teachers, beaten to pulp, dead. Another onetime student recalls: "My brother was at Peking University; he was beaten to death; then my mother committed suicide." I spoke to a brigade leader in a distant rural commune who had been hung from a stable rafter...