Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the answer lay with an eight-man committee coordinating the work of 25 different U.S. Government agencies. Headed by Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp,* the committee has been at work for the last three weeks fleshing out the plan's bare bones...
...waited for Zachariades to speak the ringing words that would reveal the road to destiny. But another voice came over the loudspeaker. Said Uncle John: "Comrade Zachariades has lost his wallet since entering the stadium. If anyone finds it, please bring it here." Uncle John was never able to lay hands on the wallet or the pickpocket...
Louis likes his sleep, eight or nine hours of it, but he can do with four, "if I lay on my back." He once read that Heavyweight Max Baer recommended sleeping that way, earnestly agrees that "it's the only kind of sleep that eases you off." The first thing he does on arising is to turn on two or three radios, one in each room, and they stay on all day. Louis doesn't care what the program is ("I can get something out of any of them"). Apparently, sweet, slurred stuff is just as acceptable...
...plans for him. Glaser says: "I'm Louis and Louis is me. There's nothing I wouldn't do for him." One thing he has done is to make sure that happy-go-lucky Louis Armstrong will never be in need. Should Satchmo have to lay down his gleaming horn tomorrow, Glaser says, he would collect $864 a month for life...
With a faint, embarrassed smile, Eccles walked back to the stand. A.P.'s attorneys tried to lay the complaint to Eccles' "personal bias and prejudice." Eccles conceded that, through the Eccles Investment Co., his family owns 44% of the stock of First Security Corp. of Ogden (Utah), which advertises itself as "the largest banking institution in the intermountain states." But he insisted that that had nothing to do with his fear that Transamerica was a monopoly...