Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CANTABRIGIANS USED TO GATHER IN DIMLY LIT CAFES TO CHAIN-SMOKE AND LAY PLANS FOR THE REVOLUTION. BUT TODAY, BRIGHT, CLEAN, TRANSPARENT COFFEE SHOPS COMMAND THE SQUARE...
...Unadventurous types can vicariously attend Markoe's sessions in past-life regression without having to lay down any nonregressed cash...
4.Markoe never brags about famous men she's slept with, although she has lain with several dogs ("4:10 p.m. We all changed sides . . . 5:20 p.m. We all lay on our backs...
...patterns -- their big cars, refrigerators and climate-controlled shopping malls -- that are the problem. "You can't have an environmentally healthy planet in a world that is socially unjust," says Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello. Counters a U.S. representative to a presummit negotiating session: "They are trying to lay a collective guilt trip on us because we try to give our people a higher standard of living...
...that every nation acquires certain habits at certain moments of its growth. One of the best descriptions of Japanese "conformity," as stereotype conceives of it, was given by William Manchester in The Glory and the Dream. Believing, he wrote, that "leadership came from the group, that progress lay in something called problem-solving meetings, ((they)) had no use for drive and imagination. Above all, they distrusted individualism. The individual sought prestige and achievement at the expense of others. He was abrasive; he rocked the boat; he threatened the corporate One, and they wanted no part of him." The only trouble...