Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...render them unrecognizable, an obvious attempt not only to spite those the victims left behind but also to intimidate them. The bodies bore various marks of torture: ankles entwined in barbed wire, stomachs crudely sewn up where they had been slashed open. On the corpse of one woman lay the seven-month fetus that had been ripped from her womb. But horror was not the only emotion expressed in Rumania last week. In the village of Denta, near Timisoara, church bells were pealing. A procession of villagers, many of whom looked like Gulag veterans in their shabby overalls and torn...
...suffering became the subject of his art. Forced for a time to work stacking empty beer barrels, he turned even that into two brief satires. Although the obvious villains in his writings were communist leaders, whom he sometimes denounced by name, his ultimate targets were fellow citizens, whose crime lay in getting along by going along. His moral courage was accompanied, as is often the case with self-selected martyrs, by flashes of stiff-necked arrogance. He seemed to mirror himself in the descriptive name of his most autobiographical character, Nettle, pricking the complacency of what...
...Stuart case gained national attention after police released a tape recording of Stuart's anguished pleas for help on the telephone in Carol Stuart's car. He had suffered a stomach wound and his 30-year-old wife, an attorney, lay dying...
...could tell from the pre-game shoot-around that the Trojans were quintessential Californians. Funky lay-ups. Funky dunks. Funky turn-around jumpers. Funky purple-and-gold warm up suits. Enormous, yet funky, L.A. Gear sneakers with funky purple shoelaces. A couple of funky dance moves to the funky tunes jamming over...
...move appeared to lay the groundwork for the mission to release Noriega him to the Panamanian government...