Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican Congressional Committee, which funds House races, figures to spend $28 million on issue ads in more than 30 states, a blitz dubbed Operation Breakout. That compares with $13 million in 1996. Democrats will spend $7 million, up $1 million from two years ago. The G.O.P. is expected to lay out $10 million on Senate races before the campaign is over. "The anticipation is excruciating--just thinking they're going to drop all this money in the last week, too late for us to respond," says a Democratic strategist...
...Birthday Letters" was quite a departure. Hughes? main talent lay in his powerful depiction of the savagery of nature -? the brutally Darwinian animal world, the intense reality of the English countryside -? and a mournfully steady eye for detail first praised by his mentor T.S. Eliot. He was not a natural choice for poet laureate, whose official duties include celebrating the queen?s birthday and commemorating other royal occasions. Many feared that like Wordsworth, one of his predecessors in the role, his talent and love of nature would be stifled. But Hughes sparkled. His 1997 offering, "Tales of Ovid...
With his beating Oct. 7 and death Oct. 12, one day after National Coming Out Day, Shepard has ignited a national town meeting on the enduring hatred that shames this country, a hatred so intense that even death didn't save him from it. While he lay dying at a hospital in nearby Colorado and thousands wired their support, college students there mocked Shepard with a scarecrow atop a parade float. While his family prepared for his burial and spoke of Shepard's gentleness and tolerant ways, a Kansas minister with a website called godhatesfags.com made plans...
...writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched narrative The Endurance (Knopf; 212 pages; $29.95), adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial proposition. Scott's last journal, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a filmed tribute drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had trekked to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, formed a syndicate before his 1914 voyage to capitalize on movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a self-assured and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic...
...Yanks down 2 games to 1 in the American League Championship Series and stuck at unfriendly Jacobs Field for the next two games? Because the Yankee second baseman, Chuck Knoblauch, had decided to recall his Little League days in Game 2 by arguing with an ump while the ball lay on the field for 7 sec., allowing the lead run to score? Because even after the Yanks won Games 4 and 5, their Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 hitters were batting a barely breathing .164 and the whole team was batting .198? Because had it not been for walks...