Word: laying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the shooting was over, Ryan, Harris and Brown lay dead on the runway. Killed, too, were Greg Robinson, 27, a photographer for the Examiner, and Patricia Park, one of the cultists who had hoped to find freedom in the U.S. At least ten others were wounded...
...suicide. They debated the issue, and soon the decision was made. Early the following morning, as the Roman troops started to climb the rocky path towards the fortress, the men inside held their wives and children close, then killed them. When only the adult males were left, they lay down near their families, and one of them, chosen in advance, killed his mates one by one. Finally, with the Romans approaching, this last man completed his task by driving a dagger into his chest. Masada had fallen after a three-year stand, but the symbolic act of defiance remains even...
Chris Kimball at 167 lbs. and John Williams at 190 were not sharp. Kimball, coming off a four year lay-off from wrestling, succumbed twice, as did Williams...
...only crossable spot lay at the edge of a 20-foot dropoff. The way over was worse than a tightrope. There were gaps between rocks that had to be jumped. One slip and that would be it, you would be swept over the edge. Nor was there any way to search for a crossing up- or downstream. There were too many rocks to climb to even attempt to look. Which left the cliff crossing: impossible...
What we miss for this part of the great plebiscite is the services of H.L. Mencken to write about the Carnival of Buncombe, to lay about him in good humor over the "rogues and vagabonds, frauds and scoundrels" who pump "stale bilge" around this "lugubrious ball." But even a man of such laser eye as Mencken confessed that after damning politicians uphill and downdale for years, a certain faith in the process kept re-emerging and he looked to politicians "to be able, diligent, candid, and even honest." That is a tall order, but one suspects that we will...