Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he had to start a hunger strike again in two weeks. Then he said that he had hope that maybe we could manage without a strike. I think he was afraid and really wanted to avoid a repetition. When we stopped talking he soon fell asleep. I lay with my hand on his chest, feeling his heart beat. First there would be several normal beats, then uneven beats, then two or three, followed by such a long pause that I thought . . . God knows, I thought everything. Those extra beats had never worried me until they had done all those...
...first rationale lay behind Soviet behavior, they blundered. When the Soviet foreign minister on September 19 handed President Reagan a note from General Secretary Gorbachev asking for a brief tete-a-tete sometime soon, the President was quick to decline. "Not until Nick Daniloff is once again a free man!" he said...
...these problems seem to be resolved. Daniloff is back home in America and Reagan will soon leave for Iceland to lay the groundwork for an arms accord with Gorbachev...
...optical technology is moving rapidly into place. Communications companies have started to lay new transoceanic cables that can compete handily with space satellites. Fiber-optic links are allowing far-flung corporations to install networks of private video hookups and connect office buildings into a new kind of "optical city." Optical technology is providing sensitive nerve endings for devices like smoke detectors and blood analyzers. Meanwhile, scientists in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan are pushing hard toward a still much-in-the-future optical computer that uses photons rather than electrons for number-crunching efficiency. The massively powerful optical brain...
...times during the '60s, a player or so was worth cheering, such as Passer George Mira or Pass Rusher Ted Hendricks. But the highlight of the '70s, a bowl-less interlude for the Hurricanes, was the time that the University of Florida literally lay down to let them score. A peripatetic coach named Lou Saban came along then, and before moving on in two years, recruited a monstrous class headed by Quarterback Jim Kelly. He is the current matinee idol of the Buffalo Bills. Saban's successor, Howard Schnellenberger, backed Kelly up with Ohioan Bernie Kosar and Long Islander Testaverde...