Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, Kennedy's proposal seemed both opportunistic and anti-democratic, while Carter's looked straightforward enough--simply playing fair with the voters who elected the delegates. And yet beneath Carter's rhetoric lay a far more insidious attempt at manipulation...
...star witnesses are certain to be the Carter brothers. Said Subcommittee Chairman Bayh: "In the final analysis, the President is the one out there who can do more to lay this issue to rest than anybody." The Senators will not have tune to prepare for questioning key witnesses - including the Carters - until after the Democratic Convention...
...lay crumpled on the floor of his office, with two bullets in his stomach, his thoughts pinwheeled off into fantasies of his real and idealized past. His first word had been "Mammon. " As a child he had torn the wings off flies and sold the insects' bodies to science. In high school he had peddled exam answers to his fellow students, then told his teacher that they were cheating. In college he had impregnated an entire sorority and used the offspring to stock a black-market adoption agency...
...lay on a stretcher in the ambulance heading toward Dallas Memorial, his mind struggling back to consciousness. They could shoot down ole J.R., but they couldn 't keep him down. Already his ambition leaped to newer, more dizzying heights. The country needed a strong leader-why not a nearly martyred oil tycoon? As President, he'd send Bobby to beat some sense into that Ayatullah fella. Spread some Bs around the Kremlin; no way those old Russkies could resist the sight of Pam in a bathing suit. Inflation, recession, civil unrest? No problem at all in a Ewing...
...Masters and Johnson record in sex therapy was unparalleled, even unique, and therein lay the catch. Other sex therapists have since been unable to match their success rate and consequently have been growing increasingly skeptical of the reliability of their findings. Now two California psychologists, Bernie Zilbergeld and Michael Evans, in the current issue of Psychology Today, have written the sharpest, most substantial attack yet. "Masters and Johnson's research is so flawed by methodological errors and slipshod reporting that it fails to meet customary standards-and their own-for evaluation research," say Zilbergeld and Evans. "This raises serious...