Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laughed sympathetically. A bunch of ten-year-old boys wearing Red Sox baseball caps started jumping up and down in their seats just in front of me, causing me to spill orange juice all over my lap. Their mothers brought them under control, but only after going beserk themselves. A band of spring-break student gypsies surrendered to the madness and lit up a joint...
...Faculty remained silent. The grandfather clock in the corner resolutely ticked off the seconds, and the faces on the wall looked down. Bok asked one last time. There was a nervous cough from the back of the room and a teacup rattled against a saucer on someone's lap. The Faculty had nothing to say. Bok adjourned the meeting...
...Social Security tax boost. Said he: "They had better move, because if they don't, Congress will." Afterward, Presidential Aide Stuart Eizenstat asked the Treasury Department to submit a list of alternative revenue sources to Carter this week. Said a Treasury official: "The issue is in his lap now. It would be foolish to ignore the obvious political signs." Nonetheless, Carter last week was resisting the pressure from O'Neill. The President told reporters that he wanted to prevent "opening the entire issue again...
Billboards on the highways leading to town proclaim that Texarkana is TWICE AS NICE because it is two cities in one, but half as nice might be more accurate. An overgrown railroad junction and manufacturing town, it squats on the state line where the north Texas plains lap at the Arkansas hills. State Line Avenue, which divides the two Texarkanas, is a garish neon strip with honky-tonks and liquor outlets on the Arkansas side facing fast-food and, religious book stores on the dry Texas side. The region's wooded terrain makes it an appealing hiding place...
Despite the last-lap acrimony and the high stakes involved, the voters remained surprisingly placid. Yet there was the real possibility that the two-round election for the 491 seats in the National Assembly might produce the first French government in 31 years to include Communists among its members. And, as France's voters prepared to cast their ballots in last Sunday's first round, it was all but certain that the parties of the left would outpoll those in the center-right coalition and possibly capture an outright majority of the popular vote...