Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Colleagues said McCarthy was quiet and easygoing. He was laid to rest in a sweater, and atelephone test handset he used in his work wasburied with...
...airlines have gone after travel agents because they are convinced they have run out of options. Struggling U.S. carriers, which have lost a total of $10.5 billion in the past four years, have laid off tens of thousands of workers, demanded wage and benefit givebacks from employees, canceled or delayed billions of dollars of orders for new aircraft and reduced service to hundreds of small communities. But travel-agent commissions, which at $7.8 billion were the airline industry's third largest cost (after labor and fuel) last year, remained largely untouched...
Epps calls for a return to those glory days in the Commons' new "laid-back" coffee house. Right on, dude. But there's more. On weekends the Commons will stack up those lunch tables and bring back disco to Harvard. We're told dancing in the Commons will surpass those silly House boogies that you don't go to anyway...
While endeavoring to light a fire in our sub-Arctic common room, however, we were laid low by the image of the Canaanite deity Baal, son of El, come forth in all his crimson glory. He informed us that the answer to our problems lay within the body of knowledge we had accumulated over the past four years. Idol worship, he boomed, is the only way to regenerate Harvard, and indeed modern society as a whole...
...development in the past two years. He movingly demonstrated his growing mastery of Coltrane's licks with chorus after chorus of blowing in a style hauntingly evocative of his idol. His exploratory forays entered into the area of choked cries, multiphonics, and ever-multiplying expansions of the harmonic structure laid down by pianist Willie Pickens and bassist Neal Caine. Unfortunately, trombonist Delfayo Marsalis (of Marsalis name and fame) let down the intensity level established by the saxophonist due to his overly precise lines and conventional phrases...