Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angry farmers massed together, blocked the driveway, sometimes violently rocked the truck. Nearly 20 trucks turned back; other drivers prudently pulled off the highway to wait it all out. But Ivan Mueller, 40, a Cecil, Wis., hauler, drove his Ford truck steadily down State Highway 117. A pistol lay on the seat beside him. He swung into the Equity driveway and stopped a few feet from the gates...
...Viet Cong for the most part lay low, taking full advantage of the chaos. The way things were going last week, they really did not need to keep fighting; South Viet Nam seemed to be paralyzed by its own endless disunity...
...Less than a quarter of its 23 sprawling wards have sewage systems, and all efforts at city planning have failed in the discussion stage. Twice in its history-after the 1923 earthquake that took 100,000 lives and leveled half the city, and after World War II when it lay again in ruins-Tokyo had a chance to rebuild itself into a cohesive metropolis. Indeed, Ichiro Kono, the stocky, 66-year-old State Minister in charge of the Olympics and the man who is largely responsible for Tokyo's face lifting, blames General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. occupation...
...lay: Stan ("The Man") Musial, 43, at his home in St. Louis following his collapse from exhaustion at a Cardinals-Braves game brought on by his coast-to-coast labors as director of the nation's physical fitness program; Henry A. Barnes, 57, New York City's controversial traffic czar, in Manhattan's Columbus Hospital with his second heart attack in eight days (fourth in a year), smitten while attending the opening of a police academy. Cracked Barnes, after cops gave him emergency oxygen: "I'm lying at death's door, but they...
Rococo was a royal style, yet one born of relief at the passing away of the splendor and pomp of Versailles and Louis XIV. Aristocrats yearned to lay aside their powdered wigs and play peasant. Marie-Antoinette's fake hamlet in the Trianon park was a doll's house for kings in fustian and queens in dirndls. Watteau and Boucher drew members of the nobility in shepherds' clothing. But aristocracy saw poverty as happy simplicity, not as a wretched problem. Came the French Revolution of 1789, and the wistful sound in the sea shell was no longer...