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Word: laying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back of the building. The opening led to a false wall, complete with a secret door. As they burst through the hardboard front, members of the 70-man police unit suddenly came upon two soundproof and unheated concrete cells. Inside each one a man, clad only in filthy pajamas, lay shivering on a mattress and manacled to the walls. Three weeks after Beer Tycoon Alfred (Freddie) Heineken, 60, and his chauffeur, Ab Doderer, 57, were spirited into a van by five masked men, one of the largest manhunts in Dutch history had stumbled upon a happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: One for the Hare | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Harvard put three more pucks behind freshman goalie Don Fawcett in the next few minutes. The fault lay mostly with the Big Red defenders, who couldn't skate with the speedy Crimson. Falcone easily slipped through the Cornell defense, stacked at the blue line, to set up Connors for the second score...

Author: By Jim Silver, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Lynah Mob Rejoices: Cornell, 6-5 | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

After Crusader guard Brian Reale missed a free throw, Harvard exploded for a fast break when sophomore guard Pat Smith found senior Ken Plutnicki (20 points) under the boards for the easy lay-up. Then, with only 1:20 to go, Crimson guard Bob Ferry intercepted a pass from Westbrook and dished off an assist to Plutnicki, who again was standing under...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Holy Cross Outlasts Hoopsters, 76-71, As Furious Crimson Rally Falls Short | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

...problem was, UMass matched everything the Crimson dished out, making the first half a duel in which the Minutemen never led by more than two, until a lay-up at the buzzer put them up by four...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Minutewomen Down Cagers; Havard Loses Sixth Straight | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

everywhere. One man lay drenched in it-with only the movement of one eye showing that he was still alive-and the mattress beneath him was drenched too. One recalled Lady Macbeth's outburst of horror: "Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" The injured in Lawrence, Kans., smiled bravely at their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Reality Is Always Worse | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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