Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear of crime is slowly paralyzing American society." Observes Houston Police Chief B.K. Johnson: "We have allowed ourselves to degenerate to the point where we're living like animals. We live behind burglar bars and throw a collection of door locks at night and set an alarm and lay down with a loaded shotgun beside the bed and then try to get some rest. It's ridiculous." The chief knows whereof he speaks; he keeps several loaded guns in his bedroom...
...most worked-out emblem of Leonardo's pessimism occurs toward the end of his life, in the 1510s, with the deluge drawings. In them, the spiral that was his sign for life becomes the symbol, and instrument, of ultimate destruction. Perhaps the germ of these drawings lay in his witnessing, as Clark has suggested, some great flood resembling the one that hit Florence in 1966. In those rhythmical, abstract spirals, like vast shavings from a plane, that emanate from the tumbling mountain, the exploding lake and the destroying clouds, Leonardo found his sign for the dissolution of all matter...
...Three American nuns and a lay religious worker were murdered in El Salvador last December by a right-wing death squad. Though the junta's investigation into the deaths has been sluggish, John Bushnell, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, defended the inquiry last week as "thorough...
...called for "immense effort" from the 5,002 approving delegates in the Kremlin's vast Palace of Congresses. "Our supreme goal will be reached," he declared. "Communist society will be built " Thus ended one of the least eventful party congresses in recent Soviet history, a gathering whose importance lay not in what it did but in what it did not do. It approved a new Five-Year Plan virtually devoid of any new approaches for tackling the Soviet Union's deepening economic woes. Unlike most past congresses, it admitted no fresh faces to the party...
...recent months, the Saudis have been meeting with five other Persian Gulf states* to lay the political underpinning for a proposed Gulf Council for Cooperation, which would bind the region with formal defense as well as economic and cultural ties. They have improved relations with a radical former adversary, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, to the extent that Riyadh was accused of complicity-or at least patent moral support -in Iraq's original assault against Iran...