Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildup in history. If at times there seems to be an excess of anti-Soviet exhortation in the President's rhetoric, it may spring from the kaleidoscopic picture of world events that Allen and his aides produce every day. Terse paragraphs tell the story in words. Satellite pictures lay it out in stunning detail: tanks, planes, missiles, submarines, divisional cantonments carved out of wilderness areas in Siberia. It is a buildup of potential death that goes beyond all reason, and our cameras do not lie. (Once, the story goes, they even defined a Soviet sun worshiper with her bikini...
...Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers, dedicated Memorial Church on Armistice Day, 1932, the names of the 373 Harvard men who died for the Allied cause were handsomely inscribed in brass letters on the travertine tablets of the memorial room, directly below the spire. On the floor lay Harvard's insignia, on the ceiling the seal of the United States--E Pluribus Unum...
...college, has helped to shape his political response. Among his housemates and partners in activism have been Quakers, Episcopalians, and Buddhists--all of whom have inspired and challenged his faith. "I find much more hope living in communities with people who have made traditional religious vows that also include lay people," he points out, emphasizing his delight in living with people both younger and older than himself. "I definitely see that as a religious community...
...attempted to keep the discussion alive, most notably by devoting his lengthy annual report for 1979-80, issued last month, to technology transfer. Although professors call Bok's opus a better effort to lay out the general issues than the Steiner memo, it shies away from speaking in any but the most general terms about the future of technology transfer at Harvard. Bok insists that he has done his best, saying, "You can't please everybody," but his document has not obviated Faculty criticism of the way the issue was initially presented by the administration...
...years he took the basic premed torture tests: the physics, the organic chemistry, the intro biology. He knew the results, the aims, the procedures of science, but he had no idea what lay behind the forests of glassware, behind the horn-rimmed glasses of the Nobel Laureate...