Word: laying
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...losers are the people of southern Wyoming, whose representatives are suing to keep train service there, and the nostalgic, who recently thronged at the gate for one last westward roll. The smell of bacon lay heavy on the morning air, spreading from a car with the name "Silver Banquet" flung back along its flank. "It is truly the last one," said Steve Patterson, a locomotive engineer with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and a man who rides the Zephyr mostly just to eat. "All the other passenger trains anywhere you go in this country all look alike. I call...
Crossing the Yard the other day, I stooped to pick up one or two of the tin cans and papers that lay in the path I was following. As I straightened up and went on my way, I overheard a little knot of French visitors who had been watching me with amazement. They stared for a minute at me and then at the rectangles of ragged grass, with their uprooted palins and their usual scatteration of papers, bottles, and plastic wrappers smeared with remnants of junk food "Tiens!" exclaimed one of the women. "It's democracy in action. The Americans...
...finally reached a kind of peace and understanding after some sexual profligacy and a bit of doubt (he had, this book claims, a dalliance with Epstein). He had also been through the entire contemporary catechism of drugs and come out whole, and even a little certain. When he lay on the back seat of a squad car, bleeding from seven bullet wounds, and a policeman asked him the routine question, "Do you know who you are?," he could just manage to nod before he died...
Though a comedy, Moscow Circles is dense with darker implications as Erofeev mercilessly reveals the absurdities of Soviet life. The reader learns, for example, of his stint as a construction foreman; the workers would lay some cable one day, get drunk, take it out the next, get drunk, and so on ad nauseam. He was eventually fired because he made the system more efficient--be dispensed with the cable altogether. The turgid rhetoric of state propaganda is lampooned in the workers' hypocritical socialist pledges, but the humor does not eclipse more sinister themes: "I like the fact that my compatriots...
With Horne poised at third. Mirmina delivered a pitched that scooted past Falcon catcher Bey Smith. As the ball lay behind the plate Horne broke for home tagging best just ahead of the tag of the covering Mirmina...