Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What Next?" After the manager had left, a group of seven elderly American women near the stove buzzed with conversation. "What next?" said one, through the black veil pulled tightly under her chin. The others shrugged. On the first lap of a world tour, they had taken a week out to visit Peiping. "I understand Bangkok is nice," said another hopefully...
Senior and freshmen swimmers splashed past Annapolis on the allegorical race through eight men's colleges, but stalled on the last lap of the journey...
Accordingly, at Franklin Field Madar got the same courtesy that was being extended to scouts in stadiums all over the country. During the halftime intermission, attendants supplied him with sandwiches, dounts and hot coffee. He nearly spilled the latter in his lap when the halftime score "Harvard 27, Columbia 10" came over the loudspeaker. "Every scout in the place popped his head up when that one came over," relates Elmer...
...longtime Dewey adviser. Then, flanked by his wife, his two sons, his mother (who had come from Owosso to be with her son at his great moment) and aides Elliott Bell and Paul Lockwood, he settled himself in his suite with a pad of yellow scratch paper on his lap. He watched a television set, listened to the radio, scanned bulletins from a news ticker. Press Secretary Jim Hagerty proclaimed confidently: "We may be out of the trenches by midnight...
Sixty-nine young women emerged smiling yesterday from the last lap of the Signature-Bonwit-Teller fashion contest, with Wellesley out in front with 23 finalists...