Word: lay
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...main substance of the book. This problem is reinforced by the fact that, although the articles have been adapted for re-publication and each is prefaced by a note of explanation, the text is still so permeated by academic language and legal references that it remains unfriendly to lay readers...
...guys, lay off the New York jokes because it can become a very nasty situation. You wouldn't want other people coming in and saying that Boston is just another suburb of New York. With whiners like you, New Yorkers wouldn't want to be associated with Boston anyway...
After a long lay-off because of exams, Harvard will be back on the water in a pre-National tune-up at Yale June 4. The Crimson were about a length and a half in front of the Eli at Sprints...
...time last Thursday when Al Gore was preparing to lead the U.S. delegation to Nelson Mandela's inauguration, the American most deserving of that trip lay in a Washington hospital. Randall Robinson, who spent years mobilizing the opposition to South Africa's oppressive regime, was in the midst of a hunger strike protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of sending Haitian refugees back to their misery...
...that there were no sanctuaries: blood flowed down the aisles of churches where many sought refuge; five priests and 12 women hiding out in a Jesuit center were slaughtered. A Red Cross ambulance was stopped at a checkpoint, the six wounded patients dragged out and bayoneted to death. Toddlers lay sliced in half, and mothers with babies strapped to their backs sprawled dead on the streets of Kigali. The fighting was hand to hand, intimate and unspeakable, a kind of bloodlust that left those who managed to escape it hollow eyed and mute...