Word: layed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They really lay it on for these," says Charles L. Burwell '39. "It's like four days in a welfare state, and a rather entertaining one at that...
...stages of a criminal investigation of Coelho's investment in a $100,000 junk bond sold by indicted inside trader Michael Milken's firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. Late Friday, after Common Cause asked the ethics committee to determine whether the bond deal was a favor, Coelho could see what lay ahead. He announced that he was quitting his leadership post immediately and resigning from Congress on June 15, his 47th birthday. "I don't intend to put my party through more turmoil," he told the New York Times...
...protocol books given to the Soviet entourage and the 80 or so reporters who accompanied Gorbachev from Moscow. What the book did cover often proved useless. Gorbachev did not "arrive by car" at Tiananmen Square nor, accompanied by two soldiers of the Chinese honor guard, did "the distinguished guest" lay a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes. And what about that passage on proper behavior at the Beijing Opera? Mikhail and Raisa never enjoyed a night...
Championship games are usually followed by scenes of celebration and dejection. Members of the winning team pile on each other. Members of the losing team crumple into balls of misery or lay on the turf like they have just had a close encounter with a Mack truck...
...rights. The Rev. H. Boone Porter, editor of the Living Church, an Episcopal weekly, complains that "national officials have taken positions which, frankly, the rest of us do not understand." There are also continual squabbles over the political stands by clergy who sound like McGovern-Mondale Democrats while lay members are largely Reagan-Bush Republicans. Several denominations have also lost members through conservative schisms...