Word: lays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shocking example yet of the virulent anti-Americanism that has surfaced during Iran's bloody revolution. To others, it was an apt symbol of American inability to influence, much less control, events in this troubled land. Last week, on the day after Ayatullah Khomeini exhorted his followers to lay down their arms, a band of 100 Iranian leftists attacked the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Barrages of machine-gun and automatic-weapons fire raked the compound. Two Marine guards were wounded and an Iranian embassy employee was killed. After two hours of skirmishing, the attackers seized the embassy and took...
...surprise attack hit the building, Sullivan and Colonel Leland Holland, the defense attache, took up a position at a command post in Sullivan's second-floor office. The Marine guards, clad in flak jackets and under instructions from Sullivan to refrain from firing back with their shotguns, lay down a cloud of tear gas. Attackers, surging against the locked gate like a human battering ram, burst into the compound. Others scaled the embassy's 12-ft. brick walls. From their posts, the Marines appealed over walkie-talkies to Sullivan (code-named "Cowboy") for permission to use their shotguns...
...fatal lapse came with five minutes left. After Yale's Susie Krentz and Sue Melone converted two Harvard turnovers into field goals, forward Lisa Brummel netted a stirring three-point play on a reverse lay-up for a 62-51 Bulldog lead...
...meeting collapsed. Outside the White House, the Mexicans told their U.S. escorts they had been treated extremely rudely. "For half an hour, he gave us a pompous lecture," one of them said. The talks lay dead for eight months while Schlesinger spent 45 hours a week on Capitol Hill, lobbying to get his riddled energy bill through the Congress...
...companies believe their devices will build up a new home-entertainment industry that will complement rather than compete with the more expensive VTRS. They also hope to grab a share of the $2.4 billion a year that Americans currently lay out for movie admissions and the $3.5 billion they spend on records and tapes; when hooked up to a stereo system, videodiscs produce a better sound quality than regular records...