Word: lap
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...burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh, Finger Cutting! Such a Bittersweet Glory"?but readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping) the gesture was immortalized by independence fighter Ahn Jung Geun...
...anymore. Sunday, in the last lap of the first and biggest race of the 2001 NASCAR season, the sport's greatest driver got tangled up with another car and slammed his trademark No. 3 black Chevrolet into the wall at the Daytona International Speedway. He was killed instantly...
...your lap in America. When abroad, keep them where others can see them...
...columnistic stylings of Joel Stein." I would get to put back every penis joke my editor cuts. I wanted to fire this cartoonist and hire someone who draws a "thinner, smaller-nosed, more Stamosesque version of me." I asked for more money. I also threw in something about a "lap-dance allowance" because there was some room at the bottom of the e-mail...
...defense of Ted Nugent, the street performer, the mayor, the dairy farmer, the lap dancers, the Naderites and a fictional sportscaster, I will point out that Katherine Harris is the only person on my list of people lamely compared to a civil rights icon who is actually being sued for "massive voter disenfranchisement of people of color during the presidential election" by the NAACP...