Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeah. That's the way things are," the boy returned. "Man, if it wasn't so hot today I would have gotten myself some new Adidases. We went to this store which just have the shoes laid out and you can just take whatever you want. Hey, those guys, they must want you to take somethin' they make it so fucking easy...
...People will not be allowed to sit or stand on the grass, since we will just have laid fresh sod," said MDC spokesman Dorothea Malley. "But they will be able to enjoy the park...
...capital crime under Roman law . . ." The same line of argument could presumably be made to support slavery, and Justice Blackmun's dissent offered a spirited rebuke from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished...
...audience. While the death of the bald Jeeter is announced smack in the opening, the sad event is inched up on through a series of digressions, including one on the deterioration of the widow Mrs. Askew's drains and downspouts. Not until page 57 is the bald Jeeter laid to rest in the local cemetery of the fictional Neely, N.C., at which time it begins to become clear that the deceased has nothing to do with anything that follows...
That position reflects the recommendations of a special commission that Nakasone created to study the Japanese economy. It laid out a program last April to bring Japan into closer cooperation with other nations. The Prime Minister has been hitting hard at the theme. Says he: "Most important of all is to gear the Japanese people's minds to an international perspective." In keeping with that view, Nakasone wants Japan to assume greater responsibility for its own defense by boosting military spending and depending less...