Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days before the bombing, he delivered Chinese food to Room 25 of the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas on a day when McVeigh allegedly was staying in the room. Davis said he handed the food to someone who did not look like McVeigh. Jones is expected to lay out the rest of his case in about one week...
...world map after World War II, was to a large extent the product of this deeply implanted instinct for the spiritual and the visionary. Sometimes it was drenched in a yearning for nature as a source of metaphor, as in the pantheistic paintings of Arshile Gorky; sometimes its sources lay hidden in the unconscious, as with Pollock. Except for de Kooning and Franz Kline, most of the Abexers--Gorky, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still--saw the socially grounded activist art of the 1930s, whether Nativist like the Regionalism of Grant Wood...
...American work ethic and the tenacious primacy of religion. They also invented American newness--the idea of newness as the prime creator of culture. They lived in expectation of something new and very big arising: Christ's reign on earth, the Millennium. This newness (with ancient precedents that lay in the Old Testament) would bring about a new phase of world history. Newness was to Americans what antiquity was to Europeans--a sign of integrity, the mark of a special relationship to history and to God. It affirmed the idea of American exceptionalism. Puritanism, in this sense, underwrote the American...
...work over that decade redefined the terms of painting for a whole generation of young Americans, opening up the possibilities of the painted figure once more. In their time, Guston's paintings seemed like a kind of treason to the high-minded refusals of late Modernism, but therein lay their newness--and their influence. They confirmed that in American art refutations exist to be themselves refuted...
...responsibility of parenthood encompasses 24 hours and holds much decision making. Is it fair to lay all the blame on the doctors' side in connection with where children should sleep and at what age? To follow the norm and so-called expert advice blindly is a convenient way to cover up a lack of personal development. Ideally, parents should have educated themselves from a variety of sources, and then open their heart and listen to their intuition. In the end, every individual is responsible for his or her own decisions. Caring for children is the most significant responsibility a human...