Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frantic family members and blinking squad-car lights surrounded Antonio Ramirez. Knocked down by a passing pickup truck, the six-year-old boy screamed in pain as he lay on a curbside patch of grass in a south Los Angeles County barrio. For paramedics Edwin St. Andrew, 27, and Walter Tayenaka, 32, summoned to an "unknown T.C." (traffic collision), the moment was routine yet unnerving. The boy briefly lost consciousness and appeared to have broken bones. They had to move him quickly to a hospital. "You never know about kids," explained St. Andrew. "They seem to be doing well...
...winds lay calm on the Caribbean that evening, but 30,000 feet up in a White House jet the President's chief of staff was stirring a political storm. Returning to Washington from the inauguration of Costa Rica's new leader, John Sununu wandered to the rear of the Boeing 707 to schmooze with the traveling press. But first he shed his suit jacket, his title and his name. At his insistence, Sununu was now a "senior White House official...
...night of Dec. 14, 1989, Andrei Sakharov returned to his Moscow apartment from a heated meeting of radical parliamentarians where he had called for the formation of an alternative party to oppose the Communists, lay down for a nap and never awoke. He was 68 when a heart attack felled him. He had been a free man for less than three years...
...greenbacks) says Palacios, voicing a common opinion that a vote for the U.N.O. was a vote for U.S.-financed prosperity. Surely, this argument goes, since Washington spent $312 million over nine years to bankroll the contra rebellion and another $9 million to back Chamorro's campaign, it will now lay out as many lapas verdes as necessary to rebuild Nicaragua's ravaged economy and keep its friends in power...
...truths are collapsing as quickly as the Berlin Wall, while Europe rushes to meet its bright and shining future. The Soviet Union can no longer lay claim to the loyalties of its East European neighbors. The U.S. can no longer assume that its West European allies will look to Washington for leadership. And the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for 40 years the crucible of security arrangements for the West, can no longer count on being the vessel in which Europe's future will be forged. All of these crumbling assumptions have left Washington grasping to define what role...