Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I will summon the person I will have chosen to form the new government." Leaning majestically forward, Mitterrand added, "As for me, I will strive both at home and abroad to defend our liberties, our independence, our commitment to Europe and our rank in the world." He thus laid claim to the overall conduct of defense and foreign affairs...
...feminism--or a certain brand of feminism--has gone beyond those liberal claims, attempting to recast the roles of men and women, and to change the rules of the Battle of the Sexes. Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, laid the foundations by contending that women have been repressed by the socially tolerated threat of rape. One implication is that women can never achieve equality with men until rape is wiped out. Another is that sexual relations are somehow inherently unjust, that a man always has the tacit trump card of a potential rape to play against his partner...
...arrived in Washington at 6:30a.m. Women poured off the bus. Some women had a cigarette and a Perrier for breakfast. The marchers began to gather in a field between the Washington monument and the Capitol building. Various college banners were laid out in roughly alphabetical order. Directors, clothed in white to symbolize women's sufferage, scurried around to organize the marchers...
Willebrands' letter addressed what the Cardinal called "the most fundamental" obstacle to Roman recognition of Anglican clergy, Pope Leo's emphatic 1896 decree. Leo's papal bull, titled Apostolicae Curae, laid out the doctrinal basis for the previous centuries of traditional rejection of Anglican ordinations...
...kind of complemented each other," says McDougall, now a senior at Union College in ECAC Division II. "His style is more flashy, he likes to kick up and he's one of the toughest goalies I've ever seen. I was more laid back, more mellow...