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...semifinals, Ohno waited until the last lap to make his move. Running third once again, he floated to the outside, then zipped inside past another skater. How he didn't scrape the blocks and get disqualified was a miracle. And in the finals, he was ensconced in second place with two and a half laps to go. "In my head I thought the race was mine," he says. Then he slipped and fell from second to fifth but summoned the strength and speed to recover from this seemingly disastrous error, and finished third to win the bronze...
...fake nurses in the aisle pretended to be knocked off balance. She landed in Cesar's lap. "Like a gentleman," she said, "he caught me and then said, 'You can ride with me.'" The phony medic then leaned into the guerrilla, asking him if he had ever flown on a helicopter. With Cesar deep in conversation, the nurse extracted herself from his lap. Then, another agent, a former boxer, moved in for the knockout. He punched the guerrilla in the throat and bashed his head against the wall of the helicopter three times. At the other end of the aircraft...
...starting line, two at a time, before an official with a French accent asks them if they're "re-dee?" The gun goes off, and they skate quietly around a 400-meter oval, swaying side-to-side, one hand on resting on their lower back. There's one lap, two laps; a little over a dozen laps during this 5,000-meter event, round and round for more than six minutes. They race against the times of the 26 other skaters in the competition, not their neighbor on the ice. As spectator sports go, long-track speed skating ranks somewhere...
...defiance of the seat-belt sign, and looked to his left. Ghonda remained upright another minute and soon saw thick, dark gray smoke coming from the man in seat 19A. He pointed across the cabin and yelled, "Fire!" As he did, flames began to shoot from Abdulmutallab's lap. (See pictures of the life of privilege of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...rhymes with witch, she showed her true colors as a diva. Seems like the vodka went straight to her underaged head. Good thing her driver wisked her promptly back to Brown...Someone was naughty this past weekend when they got a little too frisky on Santa’s lap, causing Mrs. Claus to get her panties in a twist. Mrs. C. proceeded to get wasted on eggnog and slap an innocent elf...Two presidential individuals were caught in a raunchy DFMO. He stole the key to her heart with his dorky sense of humor...Being desperate on this campus...