Word: lay
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This time his men had to push Major John Howard, 81, over Pegasus Bridge in a wheelchair as they marched to lay a wreath on the monument marking the landing of the British glider troops l6 minutes into D-day. They were the first Allied soldiers on the ground, and they captured the bridge in a few minutes, a distinction they do not want to lose in the crowded annals of history. Every year since, they have come back to give a champagne toast on the minute for their small but stunning victory. The champagne is courtesy of the French...
Sounding like the "new" Democrat he portrayed himself as on the campaign trail, President Clinton today launched his welfare-reform program by extolling work and the traditional family. He chose a heartland site, Kansas City, Missouri, to lay out his $9.3 billion plan's major component: a back-to-work scheme limiting welfare moms to two years on the dole. Republicans predictably fired back by calling the plan a big-spending initiative...
...echelon reserved for believers, the next for well-meaning nonbelievers, the last for the devil and his angels. Adherents worried about the fate of their nonbeliever ancestors can have deceased relatives baptized vicariously. Thus Mormons zealously compile genealogies so all ancestors can eventually be baptized. Meanwhile, males must become lay "priests" and serve as missionaries (currently numbering more than...
...with cabbage roses and exotic shawls that must be relics of Britain's imperial past. For many in the Glyndebourne audience, the evening's high point is the single, 80-minute intermission, when the ladies stride onto the smallish lawn to seize and defend their favorite picnic spot and lay out a lobster and strawberry feast as cows gaze at them indifferently from the other side...
...there, unions are even winning some battles. A Teamsters strike in April forced major trucking companies to stop using part-time, nonunion drivers. The same month, the Communication Workers of America got Nynex, one of the biggest of the new Baby Bell telephone companies, to reverse plans to lay off 22,000 workers. Under a new contract, Nynex will not lay off anybody over the next four years; it will try instead to induce workers to retire early by offering them six years of extra pension benefits...