Word: lays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose talents lay in administrative work, Ernest Pugmire was quite unlike his fiery evangelist father. As an administrator he advanced through the army's staff ranks, by 1942 had become a commissioner and boss of the army's Eastern Territory. Four years later he was nominated by the army's all-powerful High Council in London for the topmost army job: general of the International. It was a signal honor to be in the line of succession from William Booth to son Bramwell Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline...
Labor's candidate for the South Bradford district was George Craddock, a 52-year-old union leader and Methodist lay preacher whose slogan was: "Craddock for Security." South Bradford's working people are still poorly dressed and skimpily fed by American standards, but by & large they are better off than before the war. Craddock reminded them that in 1938 over 20,000 workers were unemployed in Bradford; now only 600 are out of work, most of these unemployable. His Conservative opponent, a wizened Bradford solicitor named John Windle, concentrated on the theme that Britain was in a mess...
...land-grabbing peasants; but most were moved by a genuine, desperate need. Italy, though greatly recovered under Marshall Plan aid, was still far from raising enough food for her teeming, fast-breeding folk. Yet about 4,000,000 acres of land, held by a handful of wealthy owners, still lay idle or were worked by antiquated methods...
...still more important discoveries awaited the investigators. Napoleon's soldiers had missed one tomb entirely; within it lay undisturbed the young Prince Fernando de la Cerda, eldest son of Alfonso X, who died in 1275. He lay on embroidered cushions, a jeweled toque on his head, a jeweled belt around him, his hand still gripping a jeweled sword hilt...
Queen Eleanor, whose domestic difficulties resulted in the convent's foundation, still lay in her royal robes, her hand still covered by a white calfskin glove embroidered in green silk. From other tombs came exquisite brocade bonnets. The colors of the silks were as bright as though dyed yesterday. There was even a bunch of tiny withered roses, a token of personal tenderness 700 years...