Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it is about time for us to lay off dear Nancy? After all, she is new to the job it took her ten or twelve years to gain...
Some of their allies on the picket line were not so lucky. After first appearing at a protest Tuesday, where they lay down and formed a partial barricade of the Central Square post office, the remains of a hardy squad of unemployed Christmas trees showed up again over the weekend to make their political beliefs known...
City councilors agreed last night that they would send as many proposals as possible to Beacon Hill in hopes that some would get through the state legislature. If Proposition 2 1/2 goes into effect as scheduled with the next fiscal year, the city may have to lay off as many as 1000 city employees...
...Elzie Segar introduced into his comic strip "Thimble Theater" a character named Popeye, a one-eyed, banananosed sailor who smoked a corncob pipe. III-favored, inarticulate, but possessed of a keen sense of "humiligration," Popeye quickly rose to star billing in the strip. His broad and timeless appeal lay in his simplicity and in his embodiment of a universal revenge fantasy. As his creator Segar put it: "I'd like to cut loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgement and size hold me back. Instead I use my imagination...
...have received. Last week, 53 days after they had begun to fast, seven Irish Republican terrorists imprisoned in the gray concrete H-block cells of Belfast's Maze Prison started to eat again. The end to the long hunger strike came as at least one of the prisoners lay near death, an event that authorities feared would inevitably have sparked a new wave of I.R.A. bombings and shootings throughout Northern Ireland and England...