Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lebanese refugees seeking escape from the relentless bombings. Israeli gunships off the southern Lebanese coast joined the attack by shelling the village of Ras el Rin and the Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh, near the Israeli border. Just outside Damur, south of Beirut, more than 20 mutilated bodies lay strewn across the road. On the route to Sidon, a civilian bus was struck by a bomb that killed 20 passengers and wounded 35 others...
Frank Silbey. chief investigator for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, picked up his telephone Said an unidentified male caller: "If you don't lay off the Donovan investigation, you and your wife and your children will end up in a pine...
...Moroccans have claimed the disputed region since precolonial times. In 1975, when Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco lay on his deathbed, Hassan led 300,000 of his unarmed subjects on a March across the border into the Spanish Sahara. The ploy worked. Spain withdrew from the colony immediately, I leaving the northern two-thirds to Morocco and the southern third to Mauritania. Nobody asked the inhabitants, believed to number about 100,000, what they wanted for their country. As it turned out, many of them wanted independence and, toward that end, banded together in a guerrilla fighting force...
...chairman of Hartz Mountain Corp., which he made into the world's largest manufacturer of pet foods and supplies; in New York City. Stern, a German immigrant, arrived in the U.S. in 1926 with 2,100 singing canaries. He quickly sold the birds, but decided that greater profits lay in marketing birdseed. The company, founded in 1932, grew under his leadership until it had annual sales of $150 million and offered more than 1,200 pet-related products. A deeply religious man, Stern gave away millions in philanthropy to Jewish American education projects...
...night of July 19, 1907, Alexei, the only son of Nicholas and Alexandra, the Tsar and Tsarina of Imperial Russia, lay in his bed, hemorrhaging. The four-year-old suffered from hemophilia-the hereditary "bleeder" disease for which turn-of-the-century medicine knew no remedy. In desperation the father and mother sent for a holy man, then the rage of St. Petersburg society...