Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International Christian University: "The Emperor's health has been treated like a classified military secret. The current jishuku is just too much." Leftist radicals showed their disgruntlement by setting two tiny bombs at subway stations only a few blocks away from the moated palace where Hirohito lay ill, and spraying red paint near the entrance to the tumulus of the Emperor Jimmu, who may be a mythical figure but is thought by many Japanese to be first in a dynastic line stretching back nearly 2,600 years...
...idea that the goal of creative effort lay outside the field of allegory and moral precept was quite new in the 1860s, when Degas was coming to maturity as a painter. The highest art was still history painting, in which France had reigned supreme; but since 1855 practically the whole generation of history painters on whom this elevation depended -- above all, Delacroix and Ingres -- had died, and no one seemed fit to replace them. French critics and artists alike, and conservative ones in particular, felt a tremor of crisis, & as others would a century later as the masters of modernism...
...University bought the land from the trustees of the Fly Club for $33,209 and later purchased an additional 2000 feet. It has paid taxes on it since that time, although the land lay virtually unused by students who were not Fly Club members until...
...their den had inexplicably broken apart. Years later, a police officer tracked his missing son to Los Angeles through information supplied in a dream by Elvis. The singer's face suddenly materialized in the wood paneling of a woman's pantry door. His voice counseled an overweight woman to lay off junk food. The late star, a frequent hospital visitor, has offered words of comfort to a woman giving birth, to another in a near death experience, and to a young girl dying of complications from Down's syndrome, whose last words were "Here comes Elvis...
With Poland's economic crisis showing no signs of easing, the government of Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner resigned last week, the first time an entire Cabinet has stepped down since Communist rule began in 1945. A new government, possibly including lay Catholics and moderate opposition figures, is expected to be installed this week. One of its first jobs: conducting negotiations next month with the Solidarity trade union, outlawed since 1981, and its leader Lech Walesa. In his first interview since agreeing to the talks, Walesa met with TIME Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth W. Banta and reporter Gertraud Lessing...