Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week thousands of dead cattle lay in tumbled rows on the arctic barrens of the great plains; thousands of dead sheep were buried on the plateaus and in the snow-choked valleys of the Rocky Mountain states. Whole herds and flocks of weak and starving animals had been without food for weeks...
...field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke it was dark and rainy, the ditch was filled with bodies. Abraham lay still. Later he crawled on hands and knees and found four other men who had survived. The men hid in a haystack and, in the morning, cautiously made their way to the nearest village...
...official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada's Justice Department was considering other charges to lay against Carr when the U.S. authorities were through with...
...looking," her congregation picketed the Examiner. A great gagster, Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered a $500-a-month bribe to lay off, he hid a microphone and got a transcript of the offer; it made juicy reading...
...kitten bred in 1904 by Ben Holt of Stockton, Calif. Some of the farms around Stockton were marshy, and Holt spent years trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with its biggest competitor in 1925 and became Caterpillar Tractor...