Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last few weeks, upon witnessing the events surrounding the visit of the South African Vice-consul Mr. Duke Kent-Brown to this campus, I felt it was time we laid out a few facts before we witness a rerun of that fiasco...
...true Moliere fashion, none of Arnolphe's carefully laid-out schemes work, and the chaos that ensues has only been matched these days by the best of Blake Edwards' movies. Sagal takes considerable liberties with the script, further fleshing out Moliere's humor. Scenes take on a cartoon-like quality in the spirit of Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes. At times, Oleson becomes an Elmer Fudd buffoon. He stumbles over tree stumps and brings out an armory of weapons to battle his imagined enemies, looking ridiculously anachronistic in a World War I helmet...
...took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul...
...victory at Ouadi-Doum capped a remarkable Chadian drive that has all but ended 3 1/2 years of Libyan occupation of the north. When Western reporters toured battle sites recently, they found evidence that Gaddafi's fleeing troops had in some places laid down their arms without firing a shot. Near the oasis town of Faya-Largeau, the Libyans abandoned a column of Soviet- made T-55 tanks with the keys still in the ignition...
...million). After two years of dramatic slump, the country's $32 billion economy is expected to grow an impressive 6% to 7% this year. Inflation has fallen from 40% two years ago to about 1% or 2% today. Free-market-oriented economic reforms by the Aquino government have also laid the groundwork for future growth. Says Gordon Westly, vice president of Manila's American Chamber of Commerce: "We're on the slow road to recovery...