Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million people, many weeping, lined the streets of Sao Paulo. Outside the gates of the local legislature, a chant went up: "O-le, o-le, o-le, o-la! Sen-na, Sen-na!" It was a rhythmic requiem for the hero who lay within, one of Brazil's greatest heroes and among the fastest men on wheels on earth -- Ayrton Senna da Silva, dead at 34, killed in a Formula One crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. In his 10 years of Grand Prix competition, the Brazilian had won 41 races and three world championships. Senna...
This time, as before, the problem lay beneath the airport's terrazzo floors, amid the underground warren of computers, conveyor belts, wires and thousands of motors that make up the airport's Disneyesque baggage system. As designed, 4,000 computer-guided fiber-glass carts, each carrying a single suitcase, will roll along 22 miles of serpentine steel tracks, delivering 60,000 bags an hour to and from dozens of distant gates and carrousels. The system employs electromagnetic motors attached to the tracks to power the carts, which are routed and monitored by banks of logic controllers, sensors and photocells...
...Crimson was outhit 16 to seven, but for the seventh time this year did not commit an error. In addition, Harvard might have been flat because of the week-long lay-off between its last game against...
These cases are not set out to prove that racism against Asians prevents deserving people from holding office. It is all too easy to lay the blame on others, while skirting the real issue at hand...
With one out, BC's Steve Dunlea wild pitched the runners to second and thrid. Up stepped Wilke, who proceeded to lay down the squeeze to plate the winner...