Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collier's last week, Big Jim Farley swung into a second lap of his "Why I Broke With Roosevelt" series with recollections of some candid talks he had had with F.D.R. about fellow Democrats...
...week, before the biggest (130,000) crowd that any U.S. sport event brings together, the two drivers slid into the cockpits of Lou Moore's identical light-blue racers. The field of 30 speedsters, their temperamental engines sucking in blends of gas and alcohol, snarled through the first lap at 122 m.p.h...
...pits were too busy to look up for more than an instant. Bill Holland, who had taken the lead (earning $100 in prize money for each lap he led) rolled in to the pit for his first stop. It took 14 seconds to change a weakening tire; nitrogen bottles blew fuel from drums into the tank; Holland patted his crash helmet, pulled down his goggles and sped off. The merry-go-round went on. With only 100 miles to go, Lou Moore's two drivers were running...
...seconds. A sudden fear seized Lou Moore: would his two drivers get into a stretch rivalry, burn up his beautiful autos and drop out when the race was all but won? Time after time, on the chalk board he ordered "EZY" as Holland passed the pit. On the 193rd lap, with auto racing's biggest honor his for the taking, Rookie Holland obeyed the "EZY" sign-and Oldtimer Mauri Rose (who had cracked up on the 40th lap last year) went into the lead. When a mechanic got set to signal Rose that he was ahead-by writing...
...loss of millions of dollars. Furthermore, British Commonwealth operators, determined to hang on to the U.S. market, would undoubtedly cut their prices below CCC's. U.S. wool-growers still clamored for Government support, which meant that more & more domestic wool would be dumped into the Government's lap, would have to be resold somehow, somewhere...