Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with latex, "prayed to the Portuguese man-of-war god," and proceeded to finish the 89-mile swim in 27 hrs. and 38 min. Now she will pursue her other goal: the 130-mile crawl from Cuba to the Florida Keys. If she succeeds, it will be her last lap. Says Nyad: "Where do you go after that...
George: "The canary is hatching an ostrich egg?" Gracie: "Yeah, but the canary is too small to cover the egg." George: "So?" Gracie: "My sister Bessie is sitting on the egg and holding the canary in her lap." The laughs would come as if they too had been written in. "Now the audience believed that Gracie believed that story," says Burns. "That was the great thing. Not the joke, but the fact that she could make it believable. It takes a damned good actress to do that." Theirs was a durable formula that lasted through vaudeville, radio and television, ending...
...that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report in his lap. Said he: "I'd have put it in the circular file. There would be no way to prosecute...
Halfway through his victory lap, a spectator handed Sebastian Coe a hazel branch with the Union Jack attached. Holding the flag high, the slender Englishman rounded the track at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, while more than 16,000 spectators rose to a standing ovation. But it was not until he reached the athletes' reception center, where his fellow competitors applauded him, that Coe understood what the rumpus was about. Said he: "That really made what I did sink in for the first time...
...draped the other end up through a cracked window into the back seat. Then he edged into the front seat, locked the doors, and turned the car on. It had run out of gas by the time a neighbor found him that afternoon. The wallet was open on his lap...