Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What do you do with a gazebo?" Bright bars of sunlight lay on the rag rugs and the pine floors, and a shaft of the stuff glinted off the Wolfs' decanter collection and their cut-glass saltcellar collection (here a discerning eye might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot...
...level, Reagan's motives were plainly compassionate. "He felt that the process of trying to lay blame on individuals was demeaning to those who died and unnecessarily painful for the families," explained a White House aide. "He did not wish to see the process dragged out." Beyond that, Reagan has high regard for the military and apparently acted, in his view, to protect...
...Catholic Conference. Shaw speculates that some of the defectors are married couples who use birth control, and "they don't want to confess it, but they don't want to not confess it." More generally, though, the dwindling attendance at confession seems to suggest that lay Catholics have a diminishing sense of their own sinfulness and of the redemptive power of the sacrament. As Shaw puts it, "They don't believe they've sinned seriously, or if they do, they believe penance is not necessary. Or they believe that nobody goes to Hell...
Actually, it is not a terrible word but a rather distinguished one, derived from the Latin depopulare and meaning, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "to lay waste, ravage, pillage, spoil." Shakespeare used it in Coriolanus when he had the tribune Sicinius ask, "Where is this viper/ That would depopulate the city?" John Milton's History of England referred to military forces "depopulating all places in their way," and Shelley wrote in Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills of "thine isles depopulate...
Another central issue was whether to recommend punishment in principal for the commanders at fault. While the commission held the ultimate responsibility for such a catastrophe lay with those in charge, they did not recommend that Reagan levy any punishment. "There is not evidence to prosecute successfully," said Murray, adding. "There should not be court martialing of some people while other people escape." Reagan eventually accepted this recommendation...