Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, Dewey's Secretary Paul Lockwood brusquely retorted that the governor felt "a solemn obligation to lay fully and frankly before the American people his views on world affairs...
Behind the Bars. The jail is a dark, dank, one-story building surrounding a dirty, unpaved patio. At least 500 men were packed in that patio. Some were crippled veterans of last year's civil war. Along the walls the sick lay in the sun. Over all hung the stench of the prison's single latrine...
Attainable Goal. As Betty herself readily admits, her talents are unremarkable. Unlike some other movie stars, she can lay no claims to sultry beauty or mysterious glamor. Her singing and dancing are pleasant and spirited, but not highly skilled. Her peach-cheeked, pearl-blonde good looks add up to mere candy-box-top prettiness. Even her intensively publicized legs (immortalized in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with Gable's ears and Barrymore's profile) cannot compare in symmetry to Dietrich...
Affectionate Tone. But General Eichelberger's real triumph lay in his dealings with the Japanese people as boss of the occupation forces. At first the Japanese had feared him as a tough soldier who would probably be a hard-heeled conqueror. He showed that he could be firm; he also showed them that he was going to be fair...
Heart of Stein. Under all this brazen willfulness lay a warmheartedness that endeared Gertrude and Alice to thousands. Soldiers and newsmen of the liberating U.S. Seventh Army found themselves rapturously hugged & kissed by Lovey, stuffed with the excellent cookery of Pussy. And, by the time Brewsie and Willie appeared in 1946 (Gertrude Stein died with a copy of it clutched in each hand), the name of Stein had ceased to be merely an object of intellectual bickering and changed into a focus of highly popular emotion. Money flowed in from publishers, visitors flowed in from everywhere...