Word: layings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Queen Elizabeth had been the Grand Fleet's flagship in World War I. Aboard her, the Germans surrendered their Navy in 1918. During World War II, she almost met an ignominious end. In 1942, as she lay moored in the shallows of Alexandria harbor, Italian "human torpedoes" got in under her, attached time charges, blew great holes in her hull. Patched in the U.S., she finished out the war in the East Indies...
...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...
Mackenzie King would not say, in so many words, "I resign." He could not risk spending seven months as a lame duck. He 'could not forget that some crisis might keep him in office. But barring the unforeseeable, Mackenzie King would shortly lay down his stewardship...
...Swiss Alps this week, on the slopes of the highest (6,000 feet) major valley in Europe, the snow lay five feet deep. It was dry and powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz...
...Merritt Parkway and most highways leading out of Boston lay buried under a six-inch blanket pock-marked throughout with yawning potholes. Jackknifed trucks and ditched cars stretched along US route 9, with busses travelling only in conveys...