Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to hit two target-men--Lance Ayrault and Richard Berkmen--who could lay the ball off to Mauro Keller-Sarmiento and Alberto Villar off the wings." Ford said, adding that tight marking on Keller-Sarmiento and the lack of support from the rear stymied the offense...
...revoked a 1971 presidential directive affirming Shenouda as the leader of Egypt's 6 million Coptic Christians, who form 14% of the population. Sadat accused Shenouda of failing to assist his government in quelling sectarian strife. Among the detainees were eight Coptic bishops, 13 priests and 125 alleged lay activists, as well as 55 secular dissidents and intellectuals...
...Catholic Church, though now deprived of its venerable primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last May, has become an arbiter between party and union; and Solidarity has grown into an organization of 10 million members, the only independent trade union in the Communist bloc. The climate of fear that lay over the land for more than three decades has gradually eased: people are able to speak freely, to buy books that were long suppressed, to secure passports for travel abroad...
...high?not remembering her speech?when she presented an award at the Tony ceremonies a few months ago. Or to describe how, on the set of Stab, "I just couldn't get a scene right. The dialogue seemed false. I got madder and madder because I knew the answer lay within me, but I couldn't wrestle it up. I sulked all day?something I never did before. There's a lot of tension toward the end of a film, because the answers have to be there...
...first major film role, Jeremy Irons must carry both stories and the audience with him; he must lay the tracks that lead Charles and Mike to their fateful folly. Says Karel Reisz: "Jeremy has the authority of a leading man without the narcissism that so often goes with it." Indeed, there is something of the fervid adolescent in his playing of these serious young men. It takes doomed love to test, toughen and mature Charles-and a compelling actor-personality to play him. Irons is equally persuasive as performer and fond lover. As Reisz notes, "Jeremy does have his Heathcliff...