Word: lay
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Wolfe treats readers to a vivid, thoroughly realistic portrait of Atlanta life. In the chapter "Lay of the Land," for example, he takes readers from the wealthy Buckhead mansions north of Atlanta, down through the bustling business district and into the slums with one seamless narrative. Current trends and ideas are summarized with pithy aphorisms: Exercise-crazed women become "Boys with Breasts" and get-rich-quick schemes induce "The Aha! Phenomenon." Wolfe entertains readers with his keen ear for dialect and penchant for Dickensian names like Armholster, Peepgass and Armentrout. And of course, when it comes to clothes...
With 7:42 remaining in the first half, Hill sliced through the Mountain Hawks' paint like the proverbial hot knife through butter and flipped in a lay-up to make him the 19th Harvard player to cross the 1,000 career points mark and the first to couple it with 400 career assists...
That was in August 1992. Seventeen months later, in January 1994, Seaboard announced that it would shutter its hog-slaughtering operations and lay off upwards of 600 employees. The company said it would keep about 300 workers to process and produce ready-to-buy meats like bacon, sausage and ham. (The number of employees eventually dropped to about 200, and Seaboard sold the business...
...embryos lay to rest suspicions voiced by paleontological gadfly Robert Bakker that sauropods gave birth to live young--though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches of fossilized embryonic skin--the first ever found--turned out to have scales arrayed in distinctive patterns (rosettes, parallel rows) similar to the arrangement of the small bony plates on the backs of titanosaurs. This could mean, says Chiappe, that like modern crocodiles, the young sauropods grew body armor as they...
...music, even if you have a tin ear. I tried Sonic's Acid Rock ($49.95), which comes with more than 500 sound clips. You can listen to any clip by simply selecting it; when you find a sound you like, slap it onto a track in the editing room. Lay down a bass line, add percussion and instrumentation--the software will even resolve the key so that everything harmonizes. What's new and astounding here is that everything is rendered in real time: raise the pitch or lower it, speed up or slow down the beat while staying...