Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babel to Eden. In quiet Havana, distant from the main stream of events, 53 nations last week signed and tossed into history's lap a weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade...
...parliamentary democracy -even with a Red Premier. The Communists got only the 38% voice in government their 38% of the vote allotted them. But at week's end the non-Communist cabinet ministers, having failed to budge Nosek with their boycott, had laid the crisis in Benes' lap by resigning their posts...
...over reaches the floor of the Massachusetts House of Representatives appeared an almost certain prospect last night, as members of the House' Committee on Education prepared to take action on what may well become the hottest political potato that Robert F. Bradford '23 has yet had tossed into his lap in his year and a month as governor...
...amazement of 15,000 track fans at Madison Square Garden, the Reverend Gil Dodds* bolted straightaway into the lead. Their Iron Deacon, the greatest miler the U.S. ever produced, usually waits a lap or two before showing his heels. As he sped around the board track, his arms flailing like windmills, Dodds heard a heavy-set man in a tuxedo chanting out the time to him: "Twenty-point-five . . . twenty-two," and he knew he was running well...
...five yard lead on the first leg. Al Ruby and Dave Hamblett held this bulge and Jim Wheeler was able to coast home in the clear when Brown's anchor man, Royce Crimmius, run into him and fell down on the curve leading into the backstretch of the final lap...