Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used wisely if it is to be used effectively. Armed force should be exercised only for a few specific purposes. Such purposes include removing an enemy's capacity to wage war and making a show of strength designed to persuade an adversary to stop its belligerent ways. Neither rationale lay behind the order to four Navy destroyers to shell an Iranian oil platform...
...enforce the U.S. embargo, since the origin of oil on world markets is hard to trace. But, he said, "while Iran is conducting the war (with Iraq) and conducting terrorism, we shouldn't be buying things from them to the tune we are.... We feel it's important to lay down our marker...
...officials pondered their dilemma, the battered Sea Isle City lay off the Kuwaiti coast. The missile blast gouged a jagged hole in the starboard side of the empty tanker and left the wheelhouse blood-splattered and strewn with debris. American Captain John Hunt was blinded by flying glass and is recovering in a Kuwaiti hospital after surgery. Several other victims of the attack are hospitalized, but all are expected to survive...
...trying to lay something on them," Tom says, as the truck pulls away. "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...
Every so often, it seems, an aggrieved composer emerges from obscurity to lay claim to a particular pop hit. More often than not, somebody is ready to believe him -- or afraid somebody else will. The melodic and rhythmic resemblance between a four-bar stretch of Jerry Herman's 1964 classic Hello Dolly ("Hello, Dolly, well, hello Dolly. It's so . . .") and Mack David's 1948 quotidian hit Sunflower ("She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower, and I . . .") cost Herman $250,000 when he indignantly settled out of court in 1966. Ten years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked...