Word: lap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Worcester, Mass.: "Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. So forget pursuing happiness. Pin your hopes on work, on family, on learning, on knowing, on loving. Forget pursuing happiness, pursue these other things, and with luck happiness will come...
...spins before, and I've gotten away with some of them," he said a few days after smoking to victory 2.5 sec. ahead of Mario Andretti. A sometime magazine model and former New York City taxi driver, Sullivan, 35, popped up in Manhattan for a post-Indy lap in a cab. He complains that his go-go playboy image is blown out of proportion. "Everyone talks about the glamour life of racing," he says. "I play hard, but I work hard too." It's just that he does it all at around 200 m.p.h...
...great-grandmother was Queen Victoria, who was photographed holding him on her lap in the last year of her life. The children of Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia were his cousins. So was Edward, Prince of Wales, later briefly King Edward VIII of England and interminably the Duke of Windsor, who was best man at his wedding. As a young man, Prince Philip, penniless but promising, married his adored young cousin Lilibet. His sister was the Queen of Sweden. Louis Mountbatten himself--and how he loved it all--was wealthy, flashingly handsome, a polo-playing friend of rajas and movie...
...understand why these two great writers so far apart today, it helps to look at the difference in their attitudes back in the sixties. Cleaver's own radicalism seems to have burned him out and left him to fall into the secure lap of his arch-enemy, the right wing. Cleaver was always an activist first and academian second. Back then, he characterized himself as "a full time revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America." His posts as chairman of the Black House Council and Minister Of Information for the Panthers continually placed...
...Perkins was battling with Northeastern's Steve Sergeant for the lead when the gun cracked to signal the final lap. As he rounded the first turn, Perkins began to kiel running straight into a gusty wind. Despite Sergeant's efforts to stay with him, Perkins extended his lead winning the race by more than three seconds...