Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teaming with fellow freshman playmaker Ann Scannel; Boutillier frequently found forward Karen Smith open under the hoop for easy back door lay-ups and short jumpers. Smith, in one of her best efforts this year, netted 18 points while snatching seven rebounds...
However, Rubin said, the most significant impact of the additions lay elsewhere. "It has produced a real uplifting of station morale," he said...
DIED. Samuel Berger, 68, laconic career diplomat; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1961-64), "Silent Sam" failed in his efforts to persuade Seoul's military regime to establish democratic institutions, but succeeded spectacularly in helping to lay the groundwork for the country's industrial boom. As deputy to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in South Viet Nam (1968-72), he administered a policy he described as "one of buying as much time as we could" after the U.S. had abandoned its doomed attempt "to win the war with money and people instead of brains...
...lost his taste for speaking his mind. This time he was in the Western Sahara with leaders of the Polisario Front, an independence movement that seeks to wrest the land away from Morocco. Washington is sympathetic to King Hassan II, so Young's hosts were happy to lay on the hospitality in a desert town and argue their side. The give-and-take got Andy thinking about the folks back home. "In most Government positions you spend your time dealing with cautious, insecure bureaucrats," he said. "I tell you, I don't know whether I'd ever...
...been imported in their innumerable baggage, and as their most priceless treasure, by the Russian dancers." Proust also used her as one of the inspirations for Mme. Verdurin, the far less sympathetic social climber. Then the magical synthesizer introduced his Misias to each other: "Mme. Verdurin's strength lay in her genuine love of art, the trouble that she used to take for her faithful, the marvelous dinners that she gave for them alone ... a sort of official representative in Paris of all foreign artists, was not long in making her appearance, by the side of the exquisite Princess...