Word: layings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first full violence (which might well be accompanied by sabotage with atomic and biological weapons); that the enemy's objective would be the destruction of U.S. capacity to resist. The only defense was a counteroffense of such speed and power that the enemy would be paralyzed. Security lay in keeping "a force in being in peacetime greater than any self-governing people has ever kept...
Burma's celebrators last week had a sharp reminder of their continuing time of troubles. On public display, in glass coffins, lay the embalmed bodies of Aung San, Burma's youthful "strong man" and six cabinet colleagues, who had been murdered (TIME, July...
...David O. Selznick improved matters in his screen play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd) and her confidante (Joan Tetzel); some of the others are acted with solid skill (by Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore), but they remain lay figures-interested but lifeless participants in a rigid, theatrical dance...
Spin of the Wheel. The trouble that rising prices caused in 1947 was due in part to the fact that both industry and Government had gone into 1947 with a misconception of the task that lay before them. Both had correctly measured the degree of inflation in the U.S. But they had woefully neglected the inflation in the rest of the world-which was producing far less than its share of goods. What was worse, Government and industry had mistakenly thought that somehow they would isolate U.S. inflation from the world's and quickly cure it even though...
...host of beings. Whitehead called them "actual occasions." Each was a point where the finished met the possible, where the ideas of God joined history, where the physical was interwoven with the mental. Each according to him, "prehended," laid hold of and made internal to itself all that lay beyond it, in the world that had been and in the world that might be, to constitute a novel present unity. Each was the juncture of the whole of the past and the whole of the future...