Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you get into a sport like this, when you spend to much time doing it at practice, it's a bug--if you lay off it for two days, you're dying to go back on the ice and shoot a puck. And if I go to a pro game at night, it drives me crazy--I want to go straight to the rink that night...
...again, Schami's narrative tactic seems more like salesmanship. He uses this structure not for any purpose so much as to revel in it for its sake. Modern authors like Calvino use a similar framework to lay bare all the peculiar social and intellectual conventions of reading , to strike at the very heart of our understanding of narrative, to unravel the fabric of reality-to bring the universe of perception to its knees. Schami uses it because it's cool and exotic...
...jobs are for positions that did not exist before the lay-offs: assistant curator of collections and assistant director of the museum...
...incredible experience," saidSussanah L. Thayer '95, of her Earthwatchexpedition in Mexico, where she spent three weeksstudying sea turtles. "We'd live in houses on thebeach. At eight at night, we'd wait at the beachesfor turtles to come and lay eggs." Thayer said herteam took the eggs to a preservation area wherethey would be safe from poachers...
...first few minutes with a strong manto-man defense and a good balance between the outside shooting of Proudfit, Reinhard and freshman Jessica Gelman and the inside play of Butler. With 14:30 left in the game, Cara Frey converted an old-fahioned three-point play off a lay-up on a stolen pass to notch the score...