Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...street, at least, one's guard is up. Muggers who demand money are, in a sense, just conducting a cutthroat business. Most of the time they do not lay claims on their victims' humanity. Home is meant to be life's one warm, safe place. Violence committed there, especially by somebody understood to be a guardian (husband, father, mother, uncle, babysitter), is a special betrayal. And once brawling becomes routine in a household, or primal taboos are cracked, there is often no stopping the spread of viciousness. Richard Gelles, a sociologist at the University of Rhode Island, describes the grim...
...seven until she was 16. "I would fight the waves of vomit that washed over my body but never made it past my throat. In my mind I would scream all my hate of what he was doing to me but again it never passed my lips. I would lay there wishing I could...
...face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...
Wherever the guilt lay, Aquino's death has fundamentally altered Philippine politics at a time when Marcos can least afford it. Parliamentary elections are to be held next year, and in recent months it seemed there was a chance they would be fair, which boded well for future stability. If, at the same time, a spirit of reconciliation could be fostered among the country's major forces-Marcos, the Roman Catholic Church, the army and the opposition-the elections might have been credible. That, in turn, could have led to open debate, brought more young people into...
Weeping a little, mindful, then lay down...