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Word: lays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isobutane had not exploded. Billy lay there, like a man listening to the tick of a time bomb, as passersby, police and firemen pried, pushed and wrenched at the stubborn steel. Then suddenly, with a great, soft whoosh, flames burst from the tanks, lashed fiercely at the faces of four rescuers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Take It Easy | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...last a bulldozer appeared, rescuers ran cables to the cab, and the dozer dragged it clear of the flames. In a Martinez hospital last week, Billy Cox grinned weakly and without his usual cockiness. Said Billy: "I lay there and all I could think was, 'What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Take It Easy | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...called "Jews & Arabs." Watching them was an elderly Bulgarian Jew who was selling small balloons from a folding table. Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee. Part of one wall of the Arab cafe lay in rubble. The cafe had been hit by an Israeli shell. On the undamaged section of the building was a bright new sign in Hebrew: "Akir Office-General Federation of Jewish Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IT BELONGS TO US | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...pastors' lawyers also plugged their clients' cultural guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Read & Reflect | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...says Author Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Crime of Weakness | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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