Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together. Cried he: "You are a clever fellow, Basso, and a good orator, but you have used us like doormats." Mopping his face with a silk handkerchief, Basso surveyed the old gentleman, then shrugged and turned away. The Socialist Party might be dead, but Basso knew where his course lay...
...Ralph Guy found himself on the scent of a $5,000,000-a-year gambling ring, employing over 600 Ford workers as writers, pickup men and runners. His prize catch: a plant committeeman of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, who, Guy reported, offered him $50,000 a year to lay off. Said Guy: "We know of some workers who frequently gamble away their entire week's pay without ever leaving the foundry...
...independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian and not just a Kremlin stooge. Its peril lay in the fact that guerrilla-wise Tito knew this, and alone among satellite satraps had the necessary independence and power to put his knowledge to use. Moscow could forgive the medals on Tito's chest, the little bust of Bonaparte on his desk. It could not forgive his double...
...first Lambeth Conference, called in 1867 at the suggestion of the Canadian church, alarmed conservative Anglicans, who feared that the assembled divines would lay down some ecclesiastical laws. But Lambeth Conferences have never been anything but consultative; the resolutions passed are not binding on the churches. But the moral and spiritual authority of some 300 bishops and archbishops makes Lambeth's "guidance" weighty indeed...
...lived at I Tatti ever since. When World War II broke out, friends urged him to leave. He refused: "Rather than give up these cypresses and olive trees and this light, I would lay down my life." Ambassador William Phillips then got a promise from Count Ciano that "Berenson would never be disturbed." Finally, however, the onrush of the Nazis forced him out. After the war, two young partisans, sent by the Committee of National Liberation, found him in hiding and escorted him back to his cypresses and olive trees, his several servants, and the remote, unruffled life...