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Word: lap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medium-size and undistinguished room with blotched walls. There is an iron bed on whose thin, lumpy mattress a whippet sleeps. Next to the bed is a scrawny- looking girl with an angular face, sewing an ornate piece of Indian cotton whose green and red whorls cascade over her lap like the tendrils of an exotic plant, out of place in the drab surroundings. But it is not these things you notice -- not, anyway, at first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fat Lady Sings | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...lap it up! Lap...

Author: By Michael E. Farbiarz, | Title: Dining, Haute-Style | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

Besides the thesis: I want to go to Foxwoods casino. Not to gamble, but just to sightsee. Also, wait for a lucrative and rewarding career to drop in my lap...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: FM Farwells | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...necessary, even the number of guests my neighbors can bring onto our turf could be restricted. And groups of high school seniors forging through the Yard on admissions tours is one thing, but people who need to take seventeen pictures of their newlyweds in the lap of John Harvard should be diverted to that stupid Shops By Harvard Yard sign...

Author: By Dov P. Grossman, | Title: An Etiquette Guide for Tourists | 12/4/1993 | See Source »

...think of is the pilot may have beenoff course and did not know his location," saidDave Strickland, owner of the airport's sky-divingoperation Airborne Adventures. "We know he had amap out, because that was found in his lap at thecrash scene...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Two MIT Students Die In Plane Crash | 11/24/1993 | See Source »

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