Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite every prediction to the contrary, Lehman stood on the 18th tee only a shot behind Jose Maria Olazabal. His course management flawless, his shot execution nerveless, Lehman had parried the best broadsides from the newest galleon in the Spanish Armada, and victory still lay within his grasp...
Bill Clinton probably winces every time he hears that the Whitewater affair has raised "another question." And he probably never believed that he would lay all the questions to rest last week when he released his tax returns for 1977 through 1979. But here's a question he may not have expected to raise: Because the returns go some way to support the White House version of events on Whitewater, why didn't he simply release them sooner...
...harvest of sorghum, set up a water pump and construct a small chicken farm. Then suddenly in November, the bad old days returned. A dispute about two stolen camels between rival subclans quickly escalated into a hit-and-run war. When the shooting stopped, 15 villages, including Asha Farto, lay in smoking ruins. All the sorghum stored by the farmers had been looted or torched, and when the seasonal rains failed the following month, the villagers were forced once again to turn to international agencies for food. "The troops brought us no change at all," says Mohammed with a grim...
...main sticking point was the I.R.A. Would it now agree to lay down its guns and talk? The British government admitted it had been holding secret talks with I.R.A. and Sinn Fein representatives prior to the declaration. Transcripts of notes from the meetings suggested a new willingness to deal with long-festering differences. All that was needed to open full-scale peace talks was a statement from the I.R.A. denouncing violence -- which has not arrived...
...roadside in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- an ersatz nation created by the South African engineers of apartheid -- the two men in khaki lay bleeding on Friday beside their bullet-riddled Mercedes. A third, stretched out beside the car, was dead from gunshot wounds. "Please help us!" pleaded Fanie Uys, a member of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, who was hit in the leg. "Please!" cried Alwyn Walfaart, hands outstretched. "Can somebody just get us an ambulance?" Moments later, a black soldier stepped forward. Before a stunned group of news photographers and TV crews, he calmly executed...