Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even states that boast bulging coffers seem reluctant to lay out more money for social services: though Texas will end this fiscal year with an estimated $300 million surplus, the state's department of human resources plans to meet an estimated $31 million cut in federal funds by slashing family-planning programs, emergency care for battered wives and protective services for abused children...
This season in Adair County has been a ballet of breathtaking intricacy, timing and beauty. In late May and early June, when the plowed land lay naked and vulnerable, there were no pelting rains to rip out seed and carry off precious topsoil. Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle showers brushed the new shoots. The temperature never went over 100° F, and every evening cool air formed in the swales and spread protectively over the young plants. The moisture choked the grasshopper hatch. Tornadoes and hail, which can claw the land raw in seconds, never materialized...
...lush fields and orchards with pesticide, word came from Japan, California's largest overseas agricultural customer (more than $100 million in purchases last year), that it would no longer buy any fruit or vegetables-more than 200 different products ranging from avocados to walnuts-in which the Medflies lay their eggs...
...contraptions, actually slept. They came to this hot-house wearing double layers of sweatsuits with towels around their heads, and even as they slept they kept a sweat running. Tight against the wall and in the corners of the room where they would not accidentally be rolled on, they lay in mounds like bears...
...voice was what sounded like the utter demolishment of the Biergarten. I pelted down there, through a crunchy dust of Uttered ashtrays. This was a primate sort of destruction, for sure; a vandalism of a shocking, human type. They had shattered the one-time funhouse mirror; chunks of it lay all over the Biergarten terrace. I kept looking down at my puzzlework reflection, looming over myself...