Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Count Your Eggs Before We Lay Them...
Under One Roof. Johnson also announced that responsibility for setting oil policies would revert to the Interior Department, where it lay during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, the responsibility had been divided among the Commerce Department, the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Emergency Planning and the White House itself. Now the complicated job of determining import quotas will be done under a single roof. Johnson's motives were partly political: as an oil-state politician, he wanted to avoid possible charges of favoritism. All the same, the result was hailed by the Independent Petroleum...
...Minister Tawia Adamafio, 51, a leftwing, London-educated lawyer who had once been Nkrumah's closest crony. The prosecution cited as "evidence" the fact that Adamafio had refused to sit beside the President on the day that he was to be killed and claimed that later, when Nkrumah lay on a hospital operating table, he had tried to engage him in "wearisome argument" in order, literally, to talk him to death...
...Boom. When music is the offender, the boom-lay, boom-lay boom of the low frequencies is usually all the captive audience next door can hear, because it rumbles much more readily through apartment walls. Says Acoustical Engineer Michael J. Kodaras: "It's like the big waves at the beach-they're much more likely to knock you down than the smaller ones." Low-frequency sounds are also closer to the natural resonance of most wall paneling, hence make walls vibrate more than high frequencies...
Since 1955 the General Education program has been held together by the personalities of Kenneth B. Murdock and John H. Finley, Jr., the last two chairmen of the committee. But there was little left of the original program except a conviction that General Education lay outside of the departments, and there was no co-herent policy within the program...