Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special meeting Tuesday morning, Meese laid his findings before the NSC. The advisers agreed that the Administration had to disclose immediately what the Attorney General had discovered. Reagan had asked Meese to conduct the press briefing that was scheduled for noon that day. "I was not being apprised of a great opportunity," joked Meese, but his manner belied his words. He spoke with verve and at times appeared to be enjoying playing again the prosecutor he once...
...Shevardnadze, Central Committee Secretary Anatoli Dobrynin and Military Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Soviet leader was welcomed as a "crusader for peace" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and cheered by schoolchildren and villagers who lined the route from the airport into New Delhi. The next day Gorbachev laid a wreath at the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India's independence, and planted a magnolia tree nearby. While the two men got down to business, Raisa Gorbachev visited museums and art galleries and attended cultural functions arranged by Gandhi's Italian-born wife Sonia...
...bathroom with the door locked...Nowadays writing is my work and the pleasure has diminished a little, and more and more often that guilty masturbatory pleasure has become associated in my head with the coldly clinical images of artificial insemination: I come according to the rules and regs laid down in my publishing contract. And although no one is ever going to call me the Thomas Wolfe of my generation, I rarely feel like a cheat: I get it off as hard as I can every fucking time...
...worded announcement (which was apparently delayed so it would not coincide with the 69th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution), noting that Molotov had died of a "lengthy and grave illness." The man who had lived in almost total obscurity since his expulsion from the Communist Party in 1962 was laid to rest in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, not far from the grave of the Kremlin leader who ousted him, Nikita Khrushchev...
...next play, Yohe sent all his receivers streaking down the field, and tossed a beautiful ball to a wide-open Sorbara. Pusateri laid a great block to spring Sorbara, and the senior sprinted untouched into the endzone to give Harvard a 21-17 lead late in the third quarter...