Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Permit me to lay before the class of '97 the same suggestion I presented to the two preceding graduating classes about what to do at Commencement about "Fair Harvard," which speaks only of "thy sons" when half of those graduating are daughters...
Diane Jellis, associate director for classes and reunions, who scheduled the senior brunch said that lack of communication was partially the reason for the scheduling problem, but that the decision lay with her office...
Soyinka told the crowded room that the origin of negritude lay in American black poetry...
...begin the day with fiction instead of the news had a transforming effect on the news. When 9 o'clock came, force of habit drew me to the shop where the papers arrive, and for the time it took to read them, I would lay aside, say, Wolff's The Rich Brother, a brooding short story about two brothers joined by fear and hatred, or O'Nan's novel The Names of the Dead, about a man who cannot leave the Vietnam War behind...
...Neither can we hold sons and daughters accountable for the sins of their mothers and fathers. We must embrace history. We must sit with our nation's sins, discuss them, debate them, transcend them. And then we must move forward together in realizing the great gifts of humanity that lay within...