Word: underlay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battles flared up even as the committee struggled for ways to end the current skirmishing and solve the religious and class differences that underlay the shooting. Bulldozers had hardly cleared away old rubble from previous fighting when debris came crashing down into the streets from new explosions. Random incidents, typical of the insanity that stalks Lebanon today, added to the intensity of the fighting. Two mortar rounds, apparently fired on aim less trajectories from undisclosed positions, hit a street in one of Beirut's Moslem quarters where harried housewives had queued up to buy bread; 24 were killed...
...past dozen years, Chicago has turned to Attorney Barnabas Sears to pursue charges involving the city's police force. In New York City, Judge Samuel Seabury raked and ultimately broke the corrupt Roaring Twenties administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker; Thomas Dewey probed the "politico-criminal alliance" that underlay the city's racketeering...
...Brown Report opted for a fourth approach--instruction in design theory. The committee members recommended that Harvard teach those fundamental principles of design which they felt underlay...
...fear of death and disease often underlay the Kaufman style. Son of an overprotective mother whose first boy died in infancy, Kaufman grew up to be a devout hypochondriac. He ate oatmeal nearly every day of his life; he hated casual human contact and touching doorknobs. One of his many mistresses recalls that when she once innocently tasted his soup in a restaurant, Kaufman promptly ordered another bowl. When she asked him how he could kiss her, Kaufman replied, "Well, Miss S., your tasting my soup was one kind of risk. My kissing you was another. Let's concentrate...
Penney's unwavering faith in the copybook maxims of his youth roused skepticism in a mercenary age, but his credo underlay his success. At his death last week after a heart attack in Manhattan, Penney, 95, left a 1,660-store empire that he built without compromising the stiff principles he had absorbed from three generations of Baptist-preacher ancestors. He neither smoked nor drank, and for years demanded the same abstemious conduct from his employees. "I believe in adherence to the Golden Rule, faith in God and the country," he often said. "I would rather be known...