Word: laying
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Thirty-five yards into the grass the big lion lay, flattened out along the ground. His ears were back and his only movement was a slight twitching up and down of his long, black tail. He had turned at bay as soon as he had reached this cover and he was sick with the wound through his full belly, and weakening with the wound from his lungs that brought a thin foamy red to his mouth each time he breathed. His flanks were wet and hot and flies were on the little openings the solid bullets had made...
...seven years, with fieldwork overseas or in the prisons or skid rows of the U.S. The challenge attracts only a handful nowadays (only three men will be ordained this year), but the Maryknoll Society remains the biggest U.S. Catholic foreign mission, with 765 priests, 109 brothers and 68 lay missioners. The separate order of Maryknoll Sisters has 975 nuns...
...designed to work if the Elysée and the Assembly are controlled by opposing forces. On the other flank, if the Communists did well, they could force their way into a coalition government and impose their radical demands on the Socialists. Mitterrand's only hope for stable government lay in a Socialist majority or in a strong enough plurality to rule with leftist splinter parties...
...opening round of bargaining to piece together a coalition, Fitzgerald seemed to have a slight edge. Haughey and Fianna Fáil had won 78 of the 166 seats in the new Dáil (parliament), compared with Fine Gael's 65. The balance of power lay with the small Labor Party (15 seats), whose new leader, Michael O'Leary, showed a marked distaste for the outgoing Haughey government. It would be "very remarkable indeed," O'Leary said, if his party linked up with Fianna Fáil. On the other hand, a Fine Gael-Labor coalition...
That long-famous but never-released photograph of Jimmy Carter and his "killer rabbit" finally surfaced last week. It should lay to rest any doubts as to the former President's bunny tale. Fishing alone in 1979 in a small watership down in Plains, Ga., Jimmy was alarmed to see "a fairly robust-looking rabbit" hissing menacingly, with teeth flashing and nostrils flared, paddling furiously toward his skiff. When the furry creature got to within a hare's breadth of the craft, Carter took oar in hand and began flailing frantically to chase it away-or maybe even...