Word: lays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, Dartmouth's Jim Panaggio followed his cue, as he too calmly sank a pair of foul shots to increase the Dartmouth lead to four points. Fine then took the inbounds pass with less than ten seconds left and drove the length of the court to lay in a hoop to keep the Crimson's waning hopes alive...
...throughout the country, are devout Shi'ite Muslims. For several years the mojahedeen conducted a terrorist campaign aimed at, among others, American businessmen and military officers based in Iran. But last week they were among those most willing to obey Khomeini's order to lay down their arms...
...across Latin America since Medellin. Most comunidades number less than 20 Christians, who meet privately and often clandestinely to talk out social and economic problems as well as religious issues. There are as many as 150,000 such communities, most of them in Brazil. Despite some tension between the lay-centered comunidades and the traditional church hierarchy, the bishops acknowledged that "the faith of Christ has flourished" in them...
Little relief is in sight on the supply side. Of the 5.8 million bbl. of Iranian oil lay lost to the world, about 900 000 bbl normally come to the U.S. and provide 5% of its daily demand for 19.4 million bbl. Extra production by Arab countries has cut the oil deficit to 2 million bbl. per day globally and 500,000 bbl in the U.S. Saudi Arabia, for example, which is committed to pumping 8.5 milion bbl. per day, is now producing 9.5 million bbl. But the Saudis are tacking a 9% premium on that extra 1 million...
...Foundation Trilogy (Avon, $5.95 paperback). A long time ahead in a galaxy far, far away, an old, decadent empire crumbles into barbarism as a farsighted few struggle, at the risk of their lives, to preserve enough fragments to lay the foundations for a new empire. The plot is familiar to anyone who has waded his way through Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. But it was brought up to date and carried forward into a frightening future in this Asimov trilogy. A collection of pieces originally published serially in the monthly science-fiction magazine Astounding...