Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guest quarters) so that its burgeoning presidential security force can properly learn the particulars of the presidential mansion. With 3,000 recruits being trained this year, maneuvers are difficult to conduct around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Explains Special Agent Mary Ann Gordon: "It's better if you know the lay of the land...
...pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed, political agitator, champion womanizer. The Hollywood moguls may think of Richard Pryor, 41, simply as the hottest black movie star ever. But to millions of his fans, black and white, this self-described nigger is preaching The Word-four-lettered...
...explode for an occasional game winning performance in crucial Ivy battles. On defense, he failed to prove his few respectable critics wrong, though a willing rebounder. Carrabino was often burned by quicker forwards who pulled up short and shot over him or drove around him for lay...
...army's resources were too strained to do more than lay down lines of defending fire and call in strafing attacks along the roadside until the guerrillas finally dispersed into the dense surrounding hillside 24 hours later. The army did not pursue them, reports TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Next day, openly cynical townspeople defiantly drove past the army checkpoints in pickup trucks straining with market goods and in crowded passenger buses sagging on their axles. "The soldiers don't dare come up the road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?...
Baker intends to have the Big Five lay out a number of options to their Republican colleagues at a lunch this week. If the G.O.P. Senators can reach agreement on a package, the results will be conveyed to the White House. No one knows what Reagan's reaction will be, although he is certain to say no if the Senators recommend any reduction in military spending, which most of them want...