Word: layed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...thousand Chinese dead lay in the snow next day. In spite of incessant air strafing, and a rain of shells from U.S. artillery and from cruisers and destroyers offshore, the enemy maintained his pressure. As U.N. troops were evacuated, the perimeter shrank. Star shells and flares illuminated the scene at night-which was the U.S. way of countering the enemy's preference for night fighting...
Captain Bill Dennis and center Ed Blodnick pulled the Crimson up from behind in the first half. In the next period the Crimson missed many easy lay-up shots, while tim O'Hara led the Eaglets with long set shots, piling up 16 points. Dennis shot little and made only four points in the second half, while Blodnick was also held down...
...turned away from the blandishments of toy manufacturers, book publishers, etc. Pogo and his pals have no greater ambition than Horrors Greeley, the freckled cow, who meanders westward as she sings: "Oh, give me a home 'tween Buffalo an' Rome, where the beer in the cantaloupe lay...
George Balanchine (real name: Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze) can probably lay as good a claim as any artist living to the title of master of arts. He does not paint, but he does just about everything else in topflight form...
...prayer, including the daily Mass and the offices, some of which he sings with his brother monks in the monastery chapel. Each sleeps some seven hours-half in the evening and half in the early morning. The two daily meals, silently delivered to each house by a lay brother, make a frugal diet: rice or beans, eggs or fish, fruit, bread and water or wine is the main meal. From September to Easter the second meal consists only of bread and water...