Word: lay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urge him to work more patiently in low-key bargaining. Beyond that, U.S. officials felt it was important to strengthen Sadat's morale. Explained one insider: "We've simply got to give him the confidence that we're going to stick with it. At best, we want to lay the basis for a firm understanding for the months ahead, so that future disappointments don't lead to surprises and shifts on his part...
...time, the fault lay not with the players, but with the listener. The two sides of that one record had aroused expectations of unrelenting hilarity from these foreign jesters, and any sensation short of these unrealistic demands was bound to come off as a letdown. Looking back now, this onetime Monty Python groupie realizes what was wrong with that TV re-run; adding the visual dimension to the already warped dialogue of the troupe did not add much to the humor, but it did effectively shatter the mystique surrounding Monty Python stemming from my ignorance of the group's background...
...Philadelphia's Republican U.S. Attorney, David Marston, Carter last week corrected a misstatement he had made during a nationally televised press conference on Jan. 12. Republican Congressmen saw an opportunity to duplicate last summer's damaging controversy over Bert Lance's financial peccadilloes, and to lay siege again to what was once the President's pride: his credibility...
According to the author, this modern view of punishment arose from the Enlightenment. Its basis lay in the principles of individual regulation and social organization. New technologies were absorbed into the modern prison of cellular, open tiers and central observation towers. Such prisons became "a privileged place for experiments on men . . ." With in the jails, a new theoretical being was conceived: the correctable "delinquent," unceasingly probed by "civil servants of moral orthopaedics...
...where such structured escapism has become frustratingly antiquated. It was an opportunistic out for Shaffer, himself a writer of second-rate mysteries, but Sleuth was both high comedy and a fairly stylish thriller, dumping on its own flailing genre with such viciousness as to end its death throes and lay it to rest...