Word: lain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio, periodically plugged into life-support systems, lies Sante Alessandro Bario, 42, once a crack undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He has lain there more than a month, his eyes always open, his brain waves showing no sign of activity, except for occasional convulsions. He is a victim-for reasons that remain mysterious-of the international drug trade...
...cost up to five times as much. So the German documents were filed and forgotten. Wainerdi and Krammer found some of the papers in the National Archives in Washington and others stuffed into crates in Government buildings around the country. Until the two men came along, the documents had lain untouched for 30 years...
That is exactly what happened to one 72-year-old woman. A year ago, neighbors found her lying in her bathtub, blood clotted on her head, a stocking twisted around her neck, and her arms trussed behind her. She had lain there for two days. The next day, the doctors amputated one arm; recently they had to remove the other...
...quality, they're often surprisingly good. Mainstage productions, on the other hand, are often surprisingly bad, not to mention more costly. It's hard to say why this is. Over the years the Loeb has gained a reputation for both technical virtuosity and lacklaster performances. Sometimes the problem has lain with the plays themselves. The Harvard Dramatic Club has usually tried to shy away from scheduling already overproduced works. A commendable policy, this, but one which has resulted in the past in the production of such gems as More Stately Mansions, probably the worst play O'Neill ever wrote...
...caught in the crossfire of police bullets and stones hurled by the rioting students. "It was the most terrifying moment of my life," he said later. "The police opened direct fire. It is terrifying to watch a gun being aimed at you. I turned and ran. Had I lain on the ground the students would have trampled...