Word: lay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shot, ran out and, while watching the door, eventually got his son to call the police. They descended in force, complete with tear-gas-launching SWAT teams. Bullhorns brayed, "Andrew, come out, the whole world is watching!" By then, he probably couldn't hear the message. His body lay lifeless in the houseboat, the revolver by his groin. As for his face, one source said it still bore a resemblance to the photos in his wanted posters...
...Vogue. A small city with a rich Greco-Roman heritage, it has become increasingly downtrodden during the past decades. Growing up there in the 1950s and '60s, Versace witnessed the miserable postwar poverty that filled the streets, but could find elegance in the turquoise Strait of Messina that lay just beyond them. His was a city where Calabrian Mafiosi thrived in all their cheap glamour and children once passed the hours in ancient ruins. Versace's family home neighbored the remains of a Greek temple...
...National Institutes of Health was so vociferous in his criticism of the Lyme groups that he was barred from having anything more to do with the disease. His cause was taken up three weeks ago in an op-ed piece in the New York Times that criticized the lay groups and pleaded with them to "let scientists do their...
After a moment of silence, the audience filed up to lay white carnations on the base of the memorial. Following the dedication there was a lunch reception on the common for all who attended...
...tone of advocacy that a prosecutor termed "improper," Brown essentially called for reopening the King investigation. He told defense lawyers and state prosecutors that he wants to see the results of FBI test firings made in 1968, then gave them a week to decide how they intend to lay their hands on those results, which reportedly are under congressional seal...