Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandoned NVA rucksacks and mess kits, but no NVA. OPERATION PACIFY WEST ONE, directed at Base Area 702 in the densely foliaged Central Highlands. It was from this sanctuary that the Communists masterminded a host of battles, including the recent assaults on camps at Bu Prang and Due Lap. Elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division and Saigon's 22nd Division are involved in the operation, which promises to be particularly arduous because wild terrain rules out anything but travel by foot. Like Bold Lancer, the exercise got off to a sputtering start; vicious ground fire pinned down...
Juniors Dave Pottetti and Tom Spengler sealed the Crimson's third dual triumph when they pulled away from teammate Mike Koerner and Army's Steve Fee on the seventh lap of the two mile, and strode home in identical times...
Gargoyles. There are bats that feed exclusively on fruit and bats that lap nectar from flowers. The bulldog bat of Central and South America catches fish in its claws, an act Miss Leen has caught in a series of strobe-light photographs. Most bats, however, feed on insects. And "most" adds up to quite a few billions. In addition, the order Chiroptera (Greek for hand-wing) contains the second largest number of species among mammals. First are the rodents, to whom bats bear only a remote taxonomical resemblance...
...mile relay. Walter Johnson turned in a blistering 47.6 quarter to push Harvard to a 3:16.9 walkway in the event. Colburn got the Crimson off to a lead with his 50.2 opening leg and was followed by Ed Dugger with a 49.5 clocking. After Johnson's quick lap. Ben Lounsbury finished with a 49.6 anchor leg to clinch the victory...
This month, a case involving $1000 worth of marijuana has fallen into the Ad Board's lap. The case, which members of the Ad Board were reluctant to discuss, came to the Board because it set off a scuffle in a freshman dorm between a freshman and two older persons, one tentatively identified as an undergraduate, who took five kilos (11 pounds) of pot from the freshman...