Word: laid
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...industry, Stone's old colleagues and fellow directors have laid on their benedictions. Woody Allen calls it a "fine movie, an excellent movie." Says Steven Spielberg: "It is more than a movie; it's like being in Viet Nam. Platoon makes you feel you've been there and never want to go back." James Woods, who starred in Stone's previous film, Salvador, calls him an "artist whose vision transcends politics. Everyone from the ex-hippie to the ex-grunt can be moved by Platoon. And his passion isn't bogus -- he doesn't play Imagine...
...battle at the end of the film was based on a New Year's Day skirmish less than a mile from the Cambodian border. "They hit us with about 5,000 troops that night. They laid bombs right on top of us; we dropped bombs right on them. It's possible that our high command was using us as bait to draw the ! Viet Cong out so we could inflict heavy casualties. We lost about 25 dead and 175 wounded; we killed about 500 of them. Their bodies were scraped up by bulldozers, just like in the movie. For that...
...unsavory is that U.S. national policy became entangled with the maneuvers of private arms dealers. At best, President Reagan and some of his aides, prominently including Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, showed atrocious judgment by plunging into a devious policy without professional diplomatic guidance. At worst, the White House has laid itself open to the nasty suspicion that in the hope of freeing American hostages, it was lured into an operation designed by arms merchants whose motives were mixed at best...
Transatlantic cables have been in operation since 1858, when the first working telegraph line was laid between Newfoundland and Ireland after many failed attempts. But radio was the only means of transmitting telephone calls across the ocean until 1956, when the first voice-carrying cable was completed. Dubbed TAT-1, for transatlantic, the $49.5 million telephone cable connected Newfoundland with Scotland and could carry 52 telephone calls. More cables followed, but the number of available wires remained well below demand until recent years. The last conventional cable to be installed, TAT-7, was built in 1983 for $191 million...
...might. Reagan has laid on an unprecedented series of White House meetings with congressional leaders for the last week in January. He is fully aware that this State of the Union message can make or break him for the next two years. He must reclaim some of the political stage that he has deserted in these past weeks. In February a White House reception for all the members of Congress and their spouses is scheduled, and the plans now call for the biggest and grandest such event of the Reagan era. The bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution is being heavily...