Word: laid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the inconvenience, last week's flooding also damaged student property. For example, many students in Quincy House have had to throw out rugs that mildewed irreparably after soaking for hours in puddles of rainwater. And the nice new carpet laid down in New Quincy hallways over the summer now bears a most unpleasant stench...
...coverage of Richard Jewell is a case in point. In its lead staff editorial on Tuesday, The New York Times laid nearly all the blame for the unjust treatment of Richard Jewell at the FBI's doorstep. They characterized the media's pursuit of Jewell and the stakeout of his home "regrettable," but peripheral. Ultimately, the editors said, the FBI was at fault for conducting an investigation based entirely on circumstantial evidence, rumor and hearsay. The FBI does shoulder considerable blame for leaking Jewell's identity to the press. Eager to close the case, they counted their chickens before they...
...Victims will be just as dead, killed off in the name of greed," he said, comparing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing to those laid off in the most recent General Motors plant closing...
Perhaps then, Harvard will be able to allow this season to be laid down and rest in peace. Harvard 8 Brown...
...grimness of this new Darwinian worldview has been stressed by the biologist George Williams, whose 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection laid its theoretical foundations. Rather like the World War II physicists who were horrified by the weapon they had invented, Williams blanches at the view of human nature and of natural selection that he helped usher in. "Mother Nature," he says, "is a wicked old witch...