Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since they "knew the lay of the land," the two students decided to take a short-cut through Adams and check the parking lot behind St. Paul's church for the purse-snatchers, according to Kirsch...
...hard day's labor in the mines to the hardluck boozers in the C & W saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches on their lunchbreak, a monstrous dumptruck heaving its load in barren industrialized zones...
...seeming paradox, the location of last week's quake was thought to be endangered because it had been calm for so long. The epicenter of the quake, in the ocean about 150 miles up the coast from Acapulco, lay within a kind of geological DMZ known as a seismic gap: a region that had not experienced a major earthquake for many years, but where bottled-up stress caused by tectonic-plate activity had reached the bursting point...
...drop to solid rock. I figured a fall would butcher me up or kill me one. I just laid down on the side, right on the edge and just hung on. The train went on by, and I walked back to find my dog, and there he lay across that rail. It sure was a sad night...
...literally in the wilderness when he found his calling. Fly-fishing on the banks of Montana's Gallatin River in 1977, McIntyre, then a 23-year-old landscaper, noticed brown trout thrashing about in a muddy stream bed nearby, trying to clear silt from the bottom so they could lay eggs on clean gravel. Deciding to help the fish reproduce and make some money for himself, he became America's first commercial stream doctor...