Word: lain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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KONSTANTIN U. CHERNENKO had lain with Soviet gods nary a week when this eminently disposable biography of the Russian Kennedy hurtled headlong towards Gorbachev lovers everywhere...
NEARLY EVERY young child has hidden in doorways, crept downstairs, and lain awake in bed at night, listening to the hushed grownup voices he is not meant to hear. These glimpses into the adult world often give the child far greater insight than his parents realize. In the opening scenes of an enchanting new Australian film, Careful He Might Hear You, a wide-eyed six-year-old boy lies awake as his anxious parents discuss his fate and admonish each other for speaking too loudly, afraid they will let him hear too much. This preoccupation with sheltering the boy from...
...journalists climbed the Akal Takht's narrow stairs, they were overcome by the lingering smell of death: many bodies had lain for days, trapped in rubble. Frogmen dived in the Pool of Nectar surrounding the Golden Temple in search of more bodies and found $300,000 in rupees, almost 9 lbs. of gold a sack of diamonds. A high-frequency transmitter and teleprinter were also discovered in a well and in the temple lodgings, troops uncovered cache after cache of arms and ammunition, including a grenade factory that had been operated by Bhindranwale's followers. But the gold...
Last week, it was. Having lain in storage for years, original cabinet fronts, light fixtures, door frames and window sashes, along with twelve pieces of concrete block, 3½ chairs and the plans, were offered in a benefit auction for Channel 13, New York City's public television station. The buyer: Tom Monaghan, 47, ebullient owner of the Detroit Tigers, head of the 1,450-store Domino's Pizza empire and, by his own account, the world's leading Frank Lloyd Wright fanatic since he was twelve years old. He beat out prospective purchasers from across...
...group of Viet Nam veterans, many of them dressed in camouflage fatigues, formed up outside the Capitol, where the Unknown Soldier had lain in state for three days. The vets tried to join the line of march-some military bands and representatives of the services and veterans groups-that was to escort the caisson to Arlington. The police intervened. Once again, as in the war, there was a gap between official policy and the will of the grunts. Once again, some Viet Nam veterans were being denied the soldier's crucial ceremony of return from war: the parade...