Word: layings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success last week, U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission was ready to lay down the futile burden it had carried nowhere for almost two years, and give up the ghost. Said Britain, France and the U.S. in a joint post-mortem supported by a majority of the others: "No useful purpose can be served by carrying on negotiations . . . The commission therefore recommends that . . . negotiations in the Atomic Energy Commission be suspended...
...earliest aspirations toward European unity were mostly military. Rome unified those parts of Europe that it cared to lay hands on; but Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...
...solidly together. Economic integration was something else again. Even if the new economic charter's guarantees brought a southward flow of private U.S. capital, it would not be enough for all of Latin America's economic needs. The only final salvation for dollar-short countries like Argentina lay in restoring Europe's capacity to pay for their agricultural produce with the girders, dynamos and machines so badly wanted. Economically, as Walter Lippmann put it, the hemisphere would have to learn to "take its place in the larger community of the Western world...
...Janeiro, Charles ("Get Rich Quick") Ponzi, 70, multimillion-dollar swindler of 28 years ago (who has been tutoring languages for a living), lay half-paralyzed in a hospital charity ward. Of the U.S. he said: "I hated to leave. I loved that country...
Surveyor. To prepare for his prodigious literary labors, Churchill got all his papers, letters and documents together and blocked out volume titles, chapter headings and an outline for all five volumes: "First I lay the track; then I put up the railway stations and the signal blocks...