Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sliding into this cave on my back was terrifying, but my fear subsided as I lay there waiting for the first picture to start, unsure of what would happen. There was no need to worry. When the MRI starts, there is no doubt that it's happening. The first, third, and fourth pictures might as well have been taken at a construction site. Boyz II Men competed with the machine, which sounded like a jack hammer. It wasn't ideal, but the second picture was undoubtedly my least favorite. The machine rocked me as if I were reclining atop ocean...
...third quarter, sophomore attackman Lawson Devries converted a pass from senior Jim Bevilacqua and then spread the wealth, finding Ferrucci free in front of the crease for a lay...
...Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and his entire Cabinet. With one sharp stroke, Yeltsin eliminated everyone he thought might be a threat to his political future. He left the reactionaries, the nationalists, the billionaire crony capitalists to pick themselves up, to scheme and struggle over whom to back and how to lay hands on still more of the vast wealth of Russia. During Yeltsin's most recent illness, they had begun to act as if his reign had ended and he didn't have to be taken into account. Yeltsin knew that. Now the schemers know they were mistaken...
...played Lord of the Flies in the remoter woods of Rock Creek Park in Washington. We collected stones in bushel baskets and hid them among the dogwood blossoms. And then, nasty little sociopaths, 10 or 12 years old, we lay in ambush and at the signal hurled rocks full force at our enemies, who were led by the boy with yellow teeth...
What if we'd had automatic rifles? Would we have used them? Our violent imaginations were in business for themselves, loose in the wildwood. We had not signed the Geneva convention. We did not desire blood, but we had not thought the play through to consequence; our fun lay in a kind of self-obliterating game of action and in the glee of power...