Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amidst all the administrative cat and mouse play which unfortunately left the ball resting in Whitlock's lap. Gensler and Farago resigned from People Switchboard, as pledged, and with the exception of a bare minimum of publicity work, they ceased to work in any major capacity on the project. The two seniors were no longer willing to continue their major effort unless they could be assured by the Administration that the project had a future in Harvard College. Following his resignation, Gensler told Whitlock that continuing to man the Switchboard as they had would be like "beating a dead horse...
...lap, Haydon, who had been trailing Baughman for most of the later stages of the race, pulled ahead, but Baughman hung on and came back in the final lap to touch Haydon out amidst some atypical top-of-the-lungs screaming from the Harvard crowd. "Hell, I wasn't going to let him get me after I had been leading the whole race," Baughman said afterwards...
...weeks earlier...now switched. "Because this man," said the Reverend Mr. King Senior, "was willing to wipe the tears from my daughter (in-law's) eyes. I've got a suitcase of votes, and I'm going to take them to Mr. Kennedy and dump them in his lap."... When one reflects that Illinois was carried by only 9,000 votes and that 250,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, that South Carolina was carried by 10,000 votes and that an estimated 40,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, the candidate's instinctive decision must be ranked among the most crucial...
...special Polaroid glasses for this revival is an instant time trip. Back you go to the advent of 3-D in the early '50s, when Bwana Devil had a lion jumping out from the screen and It Came from Outer Space landed a meteor right in your lap. House of Wax, which combined the pop-out tricks with the grue of the traditional horror movie, seemed the best of them...
...Freestyle, Jim Davis, swimming even with his man the entire race, pulled ahead in the final lap to win in the time of 5:23, while John Zakotnick turned in a good performance in the 3 meter dive, taking a second...