Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...philosophical and political vacuum somewhere between Reagan's saber rattling and Walter Mondale's giveaway plans. In 1980 my views found expression in John Anderson. This year I may not vote at all. One of the last wry comments my 80-year-old mother made as she lay on her deathbed last spring was, "At least I won't have to decide who to vote...
Roanoke Sound lay beyond the stage; water lapped at the set. Lightning bugs not yet mature enough to illuminate danced on a northeast breeze. The smell of Cutter's lay heavy upon the air. Now and again someone would thwack a thigh and a mosquito would perish. Periodically, Layton would clap his hands three times sharply and stop the work: "People, make it your own-even though I am giving you all this picky stuff...
Eileen Deutsch, 15, of Queens, N.Y., lay fatally injured; she died in the emergency room. Miraculously, the death toll by Saturday evening was only one. More than 50 other people had been injured, five critically, including a two-year-old baby. Said Fire Inspector Ed Reed: "If someone had not told me what had actually happened, with the debris and number of victims, I would have assumed that a bomb had gone...
...People were sprawled all over," recalled Susan Mahaffey, 17. "There wasn't much blood, but most of the people were lying very still. Some were unconscious. A couple looked dead." Dozens of shoes, lost in the panicked scramble, were strewn along the block. A baby carriage lay overturned and empty. Blood began to seep along the concrete...
Representing the idea of diversity may not prove very productive for Mondale. He suffered all through the primaries from the charge that he was the captive of assorted special-interest groups. Besides, when an Administration makes a point of rewarding diversity, it usually winds up being forced to lay out an enormous amount of money...