Word: laid
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...South African forces in the southeastern town of Cuito Cuanavale. The Angolan Defense Ministry claimed that its troops had killed 95 South Africans. At the same time, UNITA, the U.S.-backed guerrilla movement that seeks to topple the Angolan regime, claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Reagan Administration laid the aggression to South Africa. "We do not condone any South African raid into Angola," said a State Department spokesman. In Pretoria, South African officials denied that any of their troops were involved but did not respond to the U.S. scolding. They preferred to let the spotlight remain on Durban, where...
Jackson is seeking to make his "rainbow coalition" less monochromatic. His technique is to back the demands of almost every discontented group in society: feminists, distressed farmers, striking meat packers and TWA flight attendants, and laid-off oil-field workers. Says one party strategist: "His is an effort to take every political grievance that ever existed and make a political movement." He has had some early success: though organized labor primarily regards him with deep suspicion as a potential party-splitting force, he has been invited to give the keynote speech Monday at the convention of the American Federation...
...river grow dark and eerie. One night, somewhere between Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Dubuque, Iowa, Dmitri Agrachev, the cruise's official Soviet interpreter, was playing Scrabble, in English, with three Americans. "It's not a very nice word," he began, "but I'll use it," and laid out five letters: P-U-R-G-E. No one so much as raised a smile or a brow. Three hours later, Agrachev had finished off his opponents...
...last grim task: to turn off the pneumatically driven device that had kept him alive for 20 months. Surgeon William DeVries put his hand on the chrome key in the front of the refrigerator-size air console; then Schroeder's wife Margaret and their six children, one by one, laid theirs atop his. Together they twisted the key counterclockwise, and the artificial heart beat no more...
...fact is that virtually every genuine constitutional question has unique complexities that do not lend themselves to the slambang simplicity espoused by Reagan and Meese. For as Jefferson noted two centuries ago, the founders "laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves." And as Tribe's latest book, God Save This Honorable Court, clearly shows, the very breadth of the Constitution makes it an imperfect guide in specific matters. Such vague phrases as "unreasonable search," "equal protection of the laws," or "due process," writes Tribe, "not only invite but compel the Supreme...