Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...C.D.U. would continue to govern Rhineland-Palatinate in coalition with the Free Democrats, but it was clear that its loss there was the most damaging that the party had suffered in five state elections in the past 16 months. Taking stock, C.D.U. officials were now certain that the fault lay with der Alte's obstinate fight to hang onto his post, blocking the succession of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...elderly shopkeeper in Elisabethville ignored-or perhaps did not hear-a Congolese soldier's order to get off the sidewalk in front of the heavily guarded National Bank of Katanga last week. Angrily, the soldier hoisted his rifle and shot him in the back. As the man lay groaning on the pavement, Congolese troops shoved away a doctor who tried to save his life...
...March 1959. in the British Central Africa protectorate of Nyasaland, harmless-looking Elard Chipandale, 31, tied a handful of magic twigs about his waist, donned a coat of tree bark, and turned himself into a crocodile. He lay in wait by the bank of the Mwanza River for an eight-year-old girl named Mponda
...behavior toward them not only in the past but in the present," Olson observes. Although properly noting that many Catholics are opposed to religious persecution, one Presbyterian text warned: "The Roman Catholic Church has never formally disavowed the principle behind the Inquisition." Another read: "Personal relationships with clerical and lay Catholics can be cordial and cooperative, but ecclesiastical relationships are almost impossible...
...million endowment is paltry, its 600,000-volume library is tops for Washington campuses. Its first-rate drama department has enlivened capital culture with some 200 plays attended by 550,000 people. It boasts the nation's only school of canon law, complete with a topflight lay lawyer who converted from Judaism. Sometimes called the "West Point of the U.S. clergy," C.U. counts among its living alumni some 55 bishops and more than 40 college presidents...