Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journey, neither of us spoke; we did not want to contemplate the sentence which lay ahead...
...walking to Jewish High Holy Day services in formal attire, top hat and all, carrying his prayer book in his right hand, for all to see; the iron cross "first class," which he had won in the First World War, pinned to his frock coat. "They wouldn't dare lay a hand on me," he used to say. He turned out to be one of the lucky ones. He was arrested; then released, on condition that he and my mother and brother get out of Germany at once, leaving all their money and possessions behind...
...conjure up these two vignettes--my father en route to the synagogue, myself in tears as the school's Direktor made the announcement that barred me from the boating party--not in order to lay claim to extraordinary scars and sufferings that taught me the real meaning of tyranny and persecution, but merely to state that this early part of my past left me with an insight I have found useful, both as a historian and as a human being: there are evil people who won't be deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered...
...busy for a week putting up an escape proof fence (we hope) and turning one end of the play hut into a replica Hilton Hotel, roosts, nest boxes etc. So now we have the gentle chucking of hens and the occasional cackle when one or the other manages to lay an egg (eight today...
...beginning there were questions about his story, but few would have believed that Stuart would shoot his wife in the head at point-blank range, then turn the gun on himself. The tape recording of his anguished ten-minute call to 911 from his Toyota Cressida, as his wife lay dying beside him, etched the crime in Boston's consciousness. "My wife's been shot. I've been shot," Stuart cried as a police dispatcher tried to keep him on the line long enough to determine his location. But Stuart gave no clues. He moaned, "Oh, man. It hurts...