Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overdoses are a growing problem: more than 100 suspected cases have been reported over the past several months in Texas, Florida and California. Most teenagers seem to take "Liquid X," as it is sometimes called, to get high. But GHB is also known on the street as "Easy Lay," and authorities fear it may be taking the place of Rohypnol, the tranquilizer that made headlines last year as the "date-rape drug...
Later Tuesday evening, I walked back to the site of Fokin's performances where a makeshift monument had been constructed. I quickly gave up my suspicions. On the sidewalk lay laminated copies of a Boston Globe article on the puppeteer and photos of the man at work...
Rather the difference lay in opportunity. Were the women I saw really the economic parasites of the state they were portrayed as? Or was their misfortune rather to have belonged to a social group in which their position as non-wage earning mothers could not be justified with same title they might have earned elsewhere as housewives? Was the problem for people in their community that they were really less motivated? Or that they had grown up in a world bereft of evidence that hard work would make a difference...
Part of the reason for the dominion of purpose over progress is Harvard's excellence at guiding students along traditionally successful routes. We have fellowships tutors in each house. We have umpteen advisers to lay out a course into the most prestigious medical, law and graduate schools. The on-campus recruiting process provides a good foundation toward a high-paying career in business...
...three female freshmen were late getting to bed, and lay for a time in their darkened dorm room at the U.S. Naval Academy, murmuring of their loves and dreams. Diane Zamora spoke of her boyfriend, David Graham, a handsome, clean-cut freshman at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, whose photo nearby gazed upon the trio. "He'll always be faithful," Zamora said, "because I'll always have something on him." "Oh? What did you do? Kill somebody?" a roommate asked. Several long seconds of silence ensued, followed by more questions and then a confession. As her roommates told...