Word: lain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone for the past week, indeed perhaps for the Andropov era, was set by the military honors that were accorded to Brezhnev on his final appearance in Moscow. The coffin carrying Brezhnev's body was borne from the House of Trade Unions, where it had lain in state for three days, by six high-ranking officers as a procession of generals and admirals carried his medals on red cushions. The coffin was placed on a gun carriage drawn by an amphibious army scout car, the modern-day Soviet equivalent of the traditional horse-drawn caisson. Soldiers with fixed bayonets...
Meanwhile, on another front entirely, national leaders have sprung up who seem incapable of second thoughts. Rather than divert their gaze from the silent toy within their reach, they muse and wonder what the thing might actually accomplish. These bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world...
...license the University's patents (on Ptashne's work) to the new firm. In exchange, it would become a minority shareholder in the company and would receive royalities on at least some of the patents without investing any money. Aside from promoting the development of patents that might have lain dormant, Harvard stood to win big, putting only its reputation on the line...
Last week was generous to the convalescing President. There was no festering political problem, no diplomatic crisis-although Reagan did draft a message to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev warning him against an invasion of Poland. Even if Reagan had not lain wounded, his official obligations would have been slight. One of those chores was rich with irony-Reagan formally proclaimed next Sunday the beginning of Victims' Rights Week. Said the country's most prominent criminal prey: "Only victims truly know the trauma crime can produce...
...sections that draw one from room to room, back in time from Alexander comic strips and a Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark chamber where a wreath of gold leaves and acorns hangs over a gold larnax, or chest, in which Philip II's bones might have lain. The tomb at Vergina in which these treasures were discovered was unearthed in 1977 by Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos. It may not actually be Philip's, but it is pleasant to think it is. In any case, Philip's head is exhibit No. 1 in the show. Even...