Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dark ones absorb it, some bomb victims had the images of their clothing tattooed on their flesh: the pattern of a kimono on a woman's back, the unburned swath left by a sash around the waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away the flies that nestled in their hands and necks. Some were black from a blanket of flies that covered them...
...candidates have their campaigns well under way, while others have not yet begun to lay down the groundwork for their bids...
...time, elephants were the villages' chief source of farm labor, and the villages themselves were of strategic value to U.S. forces because they lay on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the Viet Cong supply route...
After getting the better of Mothra, King Ghidorah, the Smog Monster and Megalon, to name but a few, GODZILLA is to be put down. Toho Co. will lay the lizard to rest after his 22nd movie, Godzilla vs. Destroyer, due in December. A Toho producer said there were "no more ideas left...
Like many of the new young pianists, Terrasson has speed to burn, and he can lay down impressive, swirling solos in the rushing, post-bop style in vogue today. He undergirds his right-hand notes with layers of richly configured chords in the complex manner of pianists like Bill Evans and Hank Jones. Occasionally Terrasson will use three or four notes when one would suffice. But his revitalization of the standards is what's getting him deserved notice. That's because Terrasson's style--a fertile union of jazz avant-garde and classical--is recognizably a mix of controlled aggression...