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Word: lay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walls of all donor rooms that read "Issues taken will result in immediate discontinuation of ALL future issues." If ever such an irretrievable loss did occur, the donors would have to rely on the kinetic pornographic images of the small-screened television under which a box of Kleenex conveniently lay. I witnessed only one channel playing salacious material, a heartwarming Christmas movie that didn't star Jimmy Stewart and featured an exchange of corporeal gifts and bodily fluids. I realized the walls of the donor room are painfully thin (or maybe they only seem that way, because you know they...

Author: By Eliot I. Hodges, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Giving the Gift of Life | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Somehow, knowing that a devoted father and doting husband lay behind his saucy veneer helped to give his commentary legitimacy. I didn't feel guilty when I laughed at his celebration of primitive masculinity, his politically incorrect comments, his berating of his staff and, perhaps most of all, the exhibitionism of his personal life...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Howard's End? | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...Jordan's Furniture, a New England retailer with $250 million in annual sales. His biggest deals, though, have been in insurance, starting with auto insurer Geico in 1996 and then the $22 billion acquisition of reinsurer General Re at the end of 1997. (Insurance companies need to lay off risk, hence reinsurance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berkshire's Buffett-ing | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...hope is that we won't have to lay anybody off, but can take advantage...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Money in the Bank | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Wring dry and lay flat on the top rack of a dishwasher. Use lemon-scent detergent and wash the shirt with "pot-scrubber" (two cycles) and "heated dry" (two cycles). The shirt should be fairly stiff, crunchy and a lighter shade of gray...

Author: By F. G. Tilney, | Title: Ready Prep GO! | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

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