Word: layed
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Later, the most famous patient of the war lay under a sheet, three of her limbs in bandages, and cried. It was not so much the pain but the feeling, the desolation, of being alone and helpless. She had never been alone. She had slept within reach of her baby sister. She was from a family where her mother would pull one of her teenage daughters into her lap and hold her just because it felt nice. Even after she had left home there had been Lori and Ruben...
Inside, Jessi lay sleepless, her blood pressure dangerously low, her heart rate high. From her bed she could not see a thing, but she could hear the thump, thump of the helicopters. She thought the Iraqis had come for her by air, to take her to Baghdad or to kill her. She felt the panic again...
...What if it was Saddam's people, come to get her again? It didn't matter that the words were in English; so many Iraqis spoke English. "Oh, God," Jessi thought, "don't let it be them." She could not see the door clearly because of the curtain. She lay, her good hand clutching the sheet to her chin, and refused to answer. There was some light in the room, enough to see a man's form as he walked in. And then, just like she had wished it, a soldier was standing there...
...fierce military and political battles with Hamas and other militants, and the effort to secure the release of captive soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit and to prevent the firing of homemade rockets from northern Gaza into Israel. But for a number of Israeli security officials, the more serious threat always lay farther to the north, in Lebanon, where the well-armed, deeply entrenched and disciplined militants of Hizballah have their stronghold...
...DIED. Kenneth Lay, 64, founder and ex-CEO of Enron, who was convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy in the spectacular 2001 collapse of the mammoth energy company; while free on a $5 million bond as he awaited his October sentencing; of heart disease; in Aspen, Colorado. Born to a poor family in rural Missouri, Lay became a friend to Presidents (George W. Bush famously nicknamed him "Kenny Boy") and a Wall Street darling whose renown grew in step with Enron's soaring stock price. But the emergence in 2001 of the truth about Enron and its scandalous business...