Word: lay
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...plenty of reasons why a great spot to vacation may be an even better place to live year round: beautiful weather, for instance, or nice restaurants and outdoor activities. Conversely, there are also plenty of reasons why your perennial favorite summer getaway may not be the place to lay down permanent roots. "Sure, you like fly fishing when you do it two weeks a year, but what if that's all you can do for 52 weeks a year?" Howells says. If your vacation town is boarded up in the winter, you may find that the quiet life doesn...
...Nursing a baby may look pretty effortless, but it can burn up 500 calories a day--the equivalent of running about five miles. Where was the help coming from? Was the female completely dependent on her male significant other, as the prevailing theory has always implied? An alternative possibility lay buried in the mystery of menopause. Nature is no friend of the infertile, and in most primates, the end of childbearing coincides with the end of life, so it was always hard to see why human females get to live for years, even decades, after their ovaries go into retirement...
...itself, the jury's decision declared a happy change in the social organism. One white juror made the argument that King required the death sentence because the community had to show that the murder was "something we cannot accept." If there was encouragement to be taken from Jasper, it lay in her use of the word...
...full picture. This confuses an already befuddled reader who has enough trouble sorting out the foreign names of the members of the families. Unlike the first novel where Chaudhuri acts as a benevolent guide, this story assumes a knowledge of Indian marriage matchmaking rituals and cultural customs that the lay reader simply does not possess...
While retro may be stylish, antique quaint and archaic classy, I lay claim to none of the above. Instead, I can only call myself confusingly anachronistic--infected with nostalgia for bygone eras that were never mine to call...