Word: laying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sandinistas offered a plan much like the one rejected by the rebels last December. It calls for a month-long cease-fire, confines armed contras to three zones, prohibits delivery of military aid and requires the rebels to lay down their arms at the end of the month. The contra plan was far more audacious. It demands that the Sandinistas share power with the contras and Nicaragua's internal opposition. The contras said they were not even willing ! to consider a cease-fire until the Sandinistas make extensive changes in the constitution. Though the two sides agreed to meet again...
...trying to lay something on them. I prefer the backdoor approach. the paintings are meant to say, 'Welcome, Welcome.' Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that." --Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist, explaining his artwork bolted on the back of parking sings throughout Cambridge. (10/21/87...
There are, of course, disadvantages too. A growing number of teachers in Catholic parochial schools are lay men and women who are less experienced, younger and lower paid than their public school counterparts. And there is the cost. The mean annual tuition for a U.S. Catholic high school comes to $1,680 -- a considerable stretch for many inner-city parents. "They simply do without in order to send the kids here," says Sister Patricia Clune of Atlanta's St. Anthony's School. "We offer a disciplined environment and quality education in the religious setting the parents want...
Take a recent description of an aspect of Hegel's philosophy that I read. What the author meant to say in the sentence was that Hegel believed that self-consciousness lay at the core of mankind's production of artwork. Instead he produced a sentence with many "qua's" scattered throughout. He even added a German passage in the middle of the sentence without feeling any particular need to translate...
...beholder. Eagles congregate in winter along the Mississippi. Kids whack cans across frozen ponds and belly flop on their sleds down crystalline hills. And on some nights, with moonlight glazing the fields, come the howls of coyotes, a surviving shiver from other centuries when great adventure lay over that uncharted horizon...