Word: laid
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When the next batter laid down a sacrifice bunt, Hogan tried to force the runner at second but was too late. Doble then added to the comedy of errors when he threw an attempted pick-off throw into center field, sending the runner to third...
...remain in the custody of Cheyenne's mother. It was while her mother was at Easter services that she took her life. Brando decided against flying to Tahiti, but, ever the domineering parent, he tried to have Cheyenne buried on his private atoll of Tetiaroa. Instead, she was laid to rest in the Drollet family crypt in Faa'a. CHEYENNE WITH DAG FOR ETERNITY, read the headline in La Depeche de Tahiti...
They also made it easier for Harvard to break through in the bottom of the fourth. Kreuder singled to lead off and was safe at second when the shortstop booted Lee's grounder. Cushman then laid down a sacrifice bunt, but pitcher Beth Love made an errant throw to first to load the bases...
...ambushed Ba's troops on the road to Hoc Mon. Ba remembers yelling "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" at his force, only to have a captain tell him, "Sir, we cannot shoot. I think it's all over now, sir." At NVA command, Ba's men meekly laid down their weapons, while the general and his bodyguard hid in a flooded rice paddy, lying face up with eyes half shut and only noses poking above the murky water. That bought Ba less than 24 hours of freedom. He tried to get through the NVA lines by passing himself off as a farmer...
...will also demand sacrifice and long-term commitment. Economists estimate that the country must grow at an annual rate of 8% for another decade to catch up with the rest of Southeast Asia. At the same time, inefficient industries must be closed and unneeded workers laid off. The country's infrastructure is virtually nonexistent. To reach Ho Chi Minh City from Can Tho, the heart of the Mekong Delta's rice and seafood region, requires two ferry crossings and more than five hours of driving on what is considered a good two-lane road. The distance is only 80 miles...