Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles deplored the "wide and growing rift in the basic political understanding between the three major Allies." He urged the U.S. to assert bold leadership, to hurry up a Big Three meeting, to call the United Nations together and place all political problems in the lap of a Security Council...
...Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of firearms and mania for practical jokes; it casually flips a sausage in your lap, starts an uproar in the aisles, and sports a big, live brown bear. But either Laffing Room Only lacks the old lunacy, or the old lunacy lacks the lure it once...
Larger than the Briggs Cage board oval, the Tufts indoor cinder track is 220 yards to the lap. Included in the dual meet will be the 50, 300, 600, 1000, mile and a half, two mile relay, pole-vault, and shot...
Radio men placed microphones on a board across the President's lap. He chuckled as he talked: "... I hope some of the scribes in the papers won't intimate that I expect to make Washington my permanent residence. . . ." He talked extemporaneously for three minutes, with the rain beginning to drip from the brim of his grey campaign hat. "This is a very wonderful welcome home ... a welcome I shall always remember...
Then the parade of shiny automobiles swung off behind a noisy V of police motorcyles down Delaware Avenue, down Pennsylvania Avenue. A steady spatter of wet handclaps kept pace as jampacked thousands craned for a glimpse of the President, waving and smiling, with a lap robe pulled almost to his shoulders. Bands along the way thumped and blared, and at the sight of one in particular-the Marine Corps's only bagpipe band, home from service in Londonderry-the President turned and waved in evident appreciation...