Word: lay
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...mother possesses something that a number of other people desperately want. It is the codicil to an old, disputed will concerning the immense Huffam estate. The present holder of that property, Sir Perceval Mompesson, wants to obtain the codicil so he can destroy it. But another, mysterious enemy can lay claim to the estate if he can 1) get his hands on the codicil and then 2) engineer the deaths of John and his mother...
...statism and cold war red bashing. Every rap against the former President -- from his 1952 slush fund to the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam -- is thoroughly ventilated and, in most cases, dismissed. Nixon, says Parmet, was merely a child of his times, who "harnessed the unease that lay just below the surface of celebratory blessings of the American existence." Nixon is more interesting than that. He deepened the unease, and in the end paid heavily...
Then came Patrick Purdy. A year ago last week the deranged welder used a semiautomatic "assault rifle" to spray bullets at an elementary school in Stockton, Calif. When the shooting and screaming had ended, five children lay dead; 29 others and one teacher were injured. For many Americans, a long-held misgiving hardened into a compelling certainty: too much firepower was too easily available. One year later, California and five cities elsewhere have laws restricting or prohibiting weapons like the one Purdy used...
...great return to Dixie is driven by motives much like those that lay behind the earlier migration from the region. It is fueled largely by better- educated men and women under 40 who believe they can make a better life in the South. Explains Larry Long of the Census Bureau: "That's a profile of people who migrate for job opportunities...
Although most lay Catholics are accepting of married priests, Fichter writes, the Vatican skittishly restricts their contact with ordinary U.S. parishioners. Most of the 43 work in such careers as teaching or chaplaincies and perform regular parish work only on temporary weekend assignments. That means that a priest's wife and children do not live in a regular parish rectory and usually do not attend the church where he celebrates Mass. Nonetheless, when families do mingle with parishioners, said one wife, "people get used to you after a while...