Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roommate's statement really confused me. So, that night, I lay awake in my bed wondering, "What do those funky, mellow Californians know that we Easterners don't?" Who would have guessed that something like that was possible...
Democrats are regaling voters with distress stories, sometimes their own. Virginia Lieutenant Governor Richard J. Davis, who is running for the Senate, announced at a press conference last week that as a mortgage banker he has had to lay off 40% of his employees. Said Davis: "I know what the economy is doing. I see it firsthand." In Montana, Congressional Candidate Howard Lyman is emphasizing rather than downplaying the fact that he had to sign over his ranch to creditors right in the middle of his campaign to unseat Ron Marlenee. "I'm a victim of Reaganomics," Lyman tells...
...choreograph for a major ballet company (Virginia Sampler in 1947 for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), she also worked for Broadway and Hollywood, bringing back to the dance a concept of "total theater," the combined use of singing, dancing and acting in such ballets as As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner's novel, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a scorching version of Tennessee Williams' play...
...appreciation for an 8% September pay raise, as well as for the company's refusal to lay off workers despite an $18 million operating loss in the first quarter of 1982, Delta employees have begun chipping in to buy the airline a new Boeing 767 for about $30 million. Explains Flight Attendant Jean Owens of Atlanta: "We know what a hard time the airlines have been having, and we just wanted to say thanks for the way Delta has treated...
...game the Angels themselves only amassed six hits. But California Manager Gene Mauch made the most of them by letting his stronger batters hit away, even several times with a 3-0 count, and having his weaker batters lay the ball down. In fact, the last two batters in the Angel lineup, shortstop Tim Foli and catcher Bob Boone, drove in three of California's four runs...