Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house on F Street S.W., an old Negro lay on a bare bedspring in the junk-crammed yard, taking the sun. One of his legs was off at the knee. Inside, his son and daughter-in-law lived with their nine children in two rooms. The eldest girl had just borne an illegitimate baby. Tattered cotton coverlets lay in disorder on the only three beds. Chunks of plaster had fallen from the walls, exposing the laths. There was no heat; water came from a faucet in the yard. The young Negro wife giggled in embarrassment, twiddled the wick...
...work with the book-length manuscript, each student will in turn do the work of a first reader, and editor including correction, cutting, criticism, and copy editing. She will plan typography and format of the book and lay out advertising copy and promotion plans for her book...
...patient, and they are able to determine the kind and extent of treatment they will use. Doctors do not become government employees nor are patients compelled to go to any doctor they do not wish to. Administration will be as decentralized as possible with local groups composed of lay and medical personnel taking care of the bulk of it. Patient-doctor relationships will be unaltered. The major change from the private medical system will be the man who pays the bills. Under the Fair Deal plan, the government-run insurance company takes care of the expenses...
...football player lay face down on the soggy turn; men in red and white jerseys gather around the still form...
...gabled Chateau Henri IV in the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris, once the summer home of French kings, lay hollow and still over the Easter weekend. Outside, a group of British Tommies in shirtsleeves played soccer. Inside, in the dank, cobwebbed rooms, only one officer could be accounted for; he was sweating over a regimental payroll...