Word: laying
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...quarterback tiptoe, which scored them a goal. They made the free throw, too, which earned them an extra few seconds on the clock. But right after that, Gale Sawyers, one of the best Bear guards ever, and one of the best ever in the American League West, scored four lay-ups to put the St. Louis Bay Buccaneers so far behind that they didn't stand a chance with only a few seconds remaining in the third quarter...
Huntington also acknowledged that planning had moved toward capability of destroying military targets, even during the '60s when the language of "Mutual Assured Destruction" predominated. But he said the significance of the revised policy lay in its recognition that it is possible to have a response that is "not all or nothing...
This comes as no great surprise. While Hitchcock's talent lay in planting even the most implausible action within plots that were enclosed in, and aerated by, chilly factual details, DePalma has always submerged his stories under a torrent of extravagant stylistic effects, ditching Hitchcock's logic, his psychological insight, his mooring in the specific tension and atmosphere of a given situation or place. He shares Hitchcock's cynicism about human relations, but he has none of the sly, mordant perception that makes this cynicism persuasive and disquieting. In Dressed to Kill he dispenses with Psycho's emotional complications...
...School hoodlum: "Alley Boy squeezed the trigger again and again and again and again. Tommy Ryan's body made stupid drunken lurches all over the table. He reached out a hand and grabbed a dinner platter and pulled it with him to the floor. The big lobster lay next to Tommy Ryan on the thick Persian...
...politics," fumed Republican Senator John Tower of Texas. G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock sniffed that Jimmy Carter "has a lot of nerve even showing up in this city." But there he was smack-dab and unrepentant in Detroit, the capital of an auto industry that has been forced to lay off one-third of its workers. While the Republicans were getting ready to throw their big bash and coronation, Carter swept through town en route to Japan and illustrated the power of a President to steal headlines from his opponents by acting on problems they can only denounce...