Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enters a new word--EXPLORE, find out, uncover what had been hidden. The languages receive it; people speak and write it in awareness that out there in space promises lie concealed; and in that consciousness the thought glimmers of alternatives to the narrow, known, closed world. In choice, hope lies...
...included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief problem was "to lie down without getting hurt. I started by kneeling and then did the difficult next bit by twisting myself sideways so that my mouth hit the pillow at an angle which allowed breathing. You can tell when it works because you wake up again next morning...
Townes said the fight was no indication of race relations in the Connecticut River Valley, where the schools lie. "This is my 10th year here, and I wouldn't stay if things were as bad as I've heard some people make them...
Other viruses are responsible for longer-lasting effects. In so-called latent infections, the viral genes lie low, becoming active only intermittently, but throughout a lifetime. Herpes simplex (HSV), for example, makes its presence felt either in the form of genital lesions (usually caused by HSV-2) or as cold sores around the mouth (usually HSV-1), and comes under immediate attack by the immune system, which most of the time wins the battle...
Then there's old Christ Church, located at the corner of Garden St. and Mass. Ave., close to where George Washington stationed his troops in 1775. Several feet underneath the church lie the remains of a patriot prisoner of war shot by the Redcoats. According to popular legend, "he comes up once in a while and blows out candles," says church archivist Donna LaRue...