Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dikes of the broad Yangtze still held, but the river had set new high water marks, was still rising. At Ichang, a record 100 ft. of water halted all upriver traffic through the famed gorges leading to Chungking; Hankow's suburbs were awash; Kiukiang's busy wharves lay submerged, and sampans instead of rickshas carried passengers through the streets...
...Ames laid out $15,000 for surveys on the saving, spending and reading habits of the people who live along Midwestern Main Streets, in towns of 25,000 & under. This gave him plenty of ammunition to lay siege to advertisers. His editorial staff will be small, and lean heavily on outside "name" writers on science, sports, foreign affairs. Small-town business and travel stories-and plenty of recipes-will provide the local touch...
Last week the House of Commons took stock of the government's African policy. Before it lay a scathing report of an all-party Estimates Committee which had examined on the spot a $220 million plan for Nigerian development. The committee found (and the Commons debate tended to confirm): "[The plan] does not propound a complete strategy of development. It is merely an aggregate of proposals for spending the money. If the ten-year plan were carried out overnight . . . improvement . . . would be barely perceptible...
...bluff, Stafford yelled out 'Here come Gurkhas! Here comes the army!' His men took up the cry and moved forward in a counterattack, blasting with carbines and Tommy guns. The Communists vanished back into the hills. Five of the six handcuffed women, caught in the murderous crossfire, lay crumpled on the ground...
Barely an hour after the shuttle started, Shakespearean Scholar Gerald Bentley wanted to lay his hands on a book about Charles I right away. He got it from Firestone in ten minutes...