Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homes and apartments to inform Americans that their sons or brothers or fathers or husbands had died under the twisted, smoking debris in Beirut. It was the Marine way: personal notification, not an anonymous telegram or faceless phone call. Some of the bodies were already headed home; others still lay under tons of metal and concrete as the search team worked around the clock. It would be days before America could fully count its dead and wounded...
...Lutheran wing of the Reformation was democratic, but only in terms of the church itself, teaching that a plowman did God's work as much as a priest, encouraging lay leadership and seeking to educate...
...Buenos Aires, the streets looked like a scene from the film On the Beach. The railroad stations that are usually teeming with commuters seemed like vast caverns, and airports were closed to all but military traffic. Shops, offices, cinemas and most restaurants were shuttered. In the industrial belt, factories lay idle. By the union's estimate, some 8 million people took part in the strike. The protest ostensibly was a demand for higher wages to compensate for Argentina's runaway inflation, which reached an annual rate of 571% in August. In fact, it was a show...
...second man in the U.S. executed by injection, and after he was strapped down, a prison employee inserted an IV tube into each arm. A harmless saline solution began to flow, while executioners prepared to release a fatal dose of Pavulon, potassium chloride and thiopental sodium. He lay there waiting to die at the appointed time...
...Beverly Sills was the honored guest at the Peking Opera. She found the music entrancing, the setting beguiling-and the opera incomprehensible. So did many Chinese in the audience. Therein lay the seeds of a revolution: the libretto was flashed on a screen at the side of the stage for the benefit of those in the audience who might not grasp every nuance of archaic Mandarin. Sills resolved to take a cue from what she witnessed. The idea was reinforced when the Canadian Opera in Toronto pioneered the use of English captions in its productions of Richard Strauss...