Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parties, the opera and the theater, refused to see his friends. He even gave up translating Latin, which is one of his hobbies. Only once did he come near to breaking during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...
...said. An attendant removed a shoe and sock; the toes of Tommy's right foot were webbed. She smiled triumphantly. "The other was the same!" she said, and, sure enough, the toes on Tommy's left foot also were webbed. Tommy had blue eyes, and his ears lay flat, like Ronnie...
...taxes and government spending, promised they would keep Labor's social services but manage them less wastefully, would halt but not abolish the nationalization of industry. They denied Labor charges that they would use "mass unemployment" as an economic weapon. But Churchill declared that his party could not lay out a complete program until it had "responsibility and power...
Myers, addressing a Brooks House audience composed mainly of Business School students and Steel Union members, pointed out that his company has agreed to lay out ten cents per hour for an old age and insurance benefit program as requested by the Presidential Fact-Finding Board, but only on the condition that the workers also contributed to the program...
...Offense. In Warren, Ohio, John Markovich, who had made a shambles of the Veterans Administration office by scattering files over the floor, overturning desks and breaking up anything he could lay hand to, explained sheepishly as he was being led away: "I thought I was in the income-tax office...