Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City's 8,000,000 ad versity-tempered citizens, the sanitation workers' strike was merely a nuisance at first. By the end of last week, it had turned into a genuine crisis. Nearly 100,000 tons of uncollected garbage lay in noisome heaps on sidewalks and in doorways. Trash fires flared all over town. Rats rummaged through pyramidal piles of refuse. Public-health authorities, warning of the danger of typhoid and other diseases, proclaimed the city's first general health emergency since a 1931 polio epidemic...
...once beautiful city into a nightmare. Hué's streets were littered with dead. A black-shirted Communist soldier sprawled dead in the middle of a road, still holding a hand grenade. A woman knelt in death by a wall in the corner of her garden. A child lay on the stairs, crushed by a fallen roof. Many of the bodies had turned black and begun to decompose, and rats gnawed at the exposed flesh...
...battle heightened, Los Angeles Catholics began choosing up sides. Public manifestos of support for the nuns have come from the recently formed Los Angeles Association of Laymen, 29 Jesuits from Loyola University, and ten priests and brothers from the city's Franciscan Theological Seminary. A rival lay group, affiliated with the conservative National Federation of Laymen, rallied to Mclntyre's cause. Worried about the developing schism, 28 other Loyola Jesuits asserted that the support voiced by their 29 colleagues for the sisters "does not represent the entire religious community at Loyola," and suggested that judgment not be made...
Garrity led the Crimson skaters roaring onto the ice for a third-period comeback, but it was not Harvard's night. Smith's shot 30 seconds into the period lay frustratingly at the edge of the crease out of McCann's notice, but no Crimson player found...
...spotted the 56-year-old retired Army colonel there, and fired three shots. The guerrilla missed, and Jacobson finished him off with a .45 that had quickly been tossed up to his second-floor window by troops below. That fearsome finale ended the 6½-hour battle. Five Americans lay dead, as did two Vietnamese chauffeurs for the embassy who were apparently caught in the crossfire...