Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour before the biggest game of his life, Joe Aleffi lay on his back inside the Swarthmore College field house, staring at the ceiling. Aleffi, a senior running back for Swarthmore's football team, the Garnet Tide, had spent the morning listening to Metallica and trying to calm himself. "This is the most excited I've ever been for a game," he said. "I had trouble sleeping last night." Other Swarthmore players nearby strapped on their pads in silence. The night before, one had gone to the center of the field to meditate alone in the darkness...
...need to] lay the groundwork to keep a Democrat in the White House and win back Congress," Sanberg said. "We have to be organized way ahead of schedule. We're going to be everywhere, working to push forth the party's goals...
...kind of a footnote in the whole thing," he says. The list goes on, from the mundanities of e-commerce ?- such as digital signatures or time-stamping ?- to the global question of formulating an international governing body for Internet issues. And the Fed won't be able to lay down on the job either, Varian insists. The easier it becomes to buy and sell anythingwith the click of a mouse, the more effective liquidity there is in the economy. It's a whole new kind of inflation headache...
...Hawass's team has explored four tombs, with a total of 105 mummies laid on top of one another in neat stacks. All told, the remains were interred in four distinct ways. One type was covered with a thin layer of gold. Another lay under lifelike masks made of plaster-coated linen, or cartonnage, that was painted with scenes of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery...
...other countries. Cambodia is one of the forgotten countries with a long, hard past and a long, hard future. I am an American, an American who still remembers that we all, in this great land, came from some other country recently or a long, long time ago. PEA LAY MENG HE University Park...