Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ortega rejected the 36-hour cease-fire and a Christmas truce, saying neither would stop the United States from aiding the rebels because the Contras earlier ignored a Sandinista call to lay down their arms...
...principle to the dismantling of the entire American arsenal if only the Soviets acquiesced to his desire to proceed with the Strategic Defense Initiative. Now, one year later, the two will sign a treaty that will lead to the abolition of intermediate-range missile from the European continent and lay the groundwork for a more orderly diminution of the superpowers's strategic arsenals...
Beyond him lay Harvard's seventh straight victory and unquestioned supremacy in the East Coast Athletic Conference. Beyond him lay Harvard's ninth straight win at Starr Rink. Beyond him lay a collection of rare jewels, diamonds even, glove-fulls...
When Wildcat guard Derek Counts--who scored 18 of his game-high 31 points in the second half--handed out an assist on a Dave Murray lay-up, UNH pulled to within one, 51-50, with 11:31 left in the game...
...spent his first 40 years in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a wildlife biologist and tracker. "I slept on the ground most of my life," he told me. "No tent. Only a tarpaulin in case it rained. One night I woke up with a rhino sniffing my body. I just lay quietly. Another time I found a lion had eaten a whole cow next to me while I lay sleeping." He looks at his students and instructors, then out across the dry landscape. "Over 223 million acres have suffered from severe desertification, and more are threatened," he says. "Deteriorating grasslands create...