Word: laying
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These societies traditionally teach women that the operations are necessary before marriage and fertility, Hosken said. "We wish to lay to rest the fiction that women want to have these operations," she said, adding "In fact, the women have no choice...
...Just as he was moving toward his armored Chrysler Imperial limousine, the soccer players pulled automatic weapons from their gym bags and blasted their way through the embassy gates. After a two-hour gun battle with police and bodyguards, the bogus athletes were masters of the compound. One attacker lay dead and at least five other people were wounded, including two policemen...
Under the fearsome Doge Enrico Dandolo, the armada sailed and, by April 1204, the greatest city in the world lay prostrate; in an act of unparalleled treachery, the most powerful Roman Catholic state in Italy had destroyed its religious rival, the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Tremendous booty was brought back from Constantinople to Venice. So thorough was the stripping that the soldiers even destroyed icons to get their gold leaf; 200 years later, when the last of the Byzantine emperors made a pathetic state visit to Venice, a shrewd onlooker noticed that the jewels in his crown were...
Nevertheless, Fraser emphasizes the personal character of Charles II over political events--a justifiable technique in recounting 17th-century history, where the idiosyncrasies of reigning monarchs deeply influenced national policy. The psychological portrait is not sophisticated. Fraser argues that deep melancholy lay behind Charles's self-indulgence--hardly a new or clinical insight. She says she wants to strip away the layers of romantic gloss, but Fraser's left enough to make this an entertaining, if overly adulatory biography...
...first two minutes, then burst into a 14-1 spurt which placed the team in the lead to stay. Often waiting 30 seconds or more to take a shot, the cagers worked the ball around the perimeter until they could find someone--usually Fleming--inside for a lay-up. Twice the lead expanded to 17 points, until the Elis began whittling it down in the second half...