Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question lay in the B-division, where Jackson, who'd been out for nearly two weeks with a sprained ankle, played in the number one spot, in place of ex-teammate Brad Desaulniers...
...Allied side who had graduated from the German war college, the Kriegsakademie in Berlin. His study of geopolitics there convinced him that the key to power on the Continent was control of Eastern Europe. The only answer to Hitler, therefore, lay in building a superior war machine, then getting it across the ocean and into Germany as soon as possible. Wedemeyer wanted D-day to occur by early summer 1943, a year before the invasion of France actually took place...
...possible explanation for Washington's contradictory comments last week lay in the fact that the diplomatic process was going nowhere. The Israeli-Lebanese talks were stalled, and not merely because Lebanon was being assaulted by the most severe blizzard in memory. The Palestine National Council, the policymaking body of the P.L.O., was ending its meeting in Algiers on an ambiguous note. The council refrained from rejecting the peace plan Reagan presented last September; that was considered a modest victory for P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. On the other hand, the council refused to endorse either the Reagan plan...
...team's good times sometimes change into anxiety, as in one pre-game practice at Walpole Prison. "A mass murderer came up and wanted to do a lay-up and nobody wanted to tell him he couldn't," remembers Lauer...
...chase their prey at crazy speeds in high-powered cars. There has been so much of this mad motoring that the wonder is that no member of the royal family or the public has been killed. One reporter has even been known to steal a colleague's photos. Others lay out misleading clues to send teams from rival papers in the wrong direction. Some of this is cheerful lunacy, and Photographer Steve Wood, a legendary Daily Express stalker, says he heard from a footman that "Prince Philip used to make jokes every morning at breakfast about us. The royals spend...