Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates were kept talking right up to closing time. The Assembly was asked to settle the fate of Italy's former colonies, a question popped into U.N.'s lap when the Big Four were unable to agree on it. After heated debate, the Assembly firmly shelved the question until its next session. Next day, it was the distant figure of runaway Communist Gerhart Eisler which agitated the Assembly. Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy asked the Assembly to conduct an inquiry into Eisler's rights of political asylum. The Assembly voted against allowing discussion of the Eisler...
...when the defense collapsed and Jackson had its second spree of the day in the seventh and final frame. The Annex found no help in the last lap and the game died...
...could have been little more than a week ago--two weeks at the most--when the Vagabond found himself leaning back in a chair, tie loosened, sleeves rolled up, holding a book. He had the book in his lap, but reading he was not. He was Contemplating. Staring into and beyond the passers-by, feeling the fluorescent lighting of Lamont beat down on the back of his neck, the Vagabond merged himself slowly with his surroundings. The Kentucky Derby, the Term Bill, the grey flannels that needed pressing--all worldly items left his mind as he felt himself received into...
...kind of story that nightclub pressagents lie awake mornings trying to contrive, knowing that the tabloids will lap it up if it can be made to look like hot news. One morning last week, while other Manhattan papers were playing photographs of the Northwest's earthquake (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) on their front pages, the New York Daily News coolly threw its quake pictures on the floor. It had exclusive, newsstand-shocking news of its own; on Page One, the Daily News slapped a full-page action shot of Stripteasers Georgia Sothern and Joann Collier, zestfully clawing each other outside...
Correction for a Critic. Lute in lap, she began with Elizabethan airs like Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home and Can She Excuse, sending the notes out soft and sweet. Then she tripped across stage to a tiny 16th Century virginal, and tinkled out two more. Before the program was over, one-woman-show Suzanne had also performed on three types of recorders, conducted a group of psalter singers and an ensemble, danced a bit and sung two of her own compositions. Wrote the New York Times's Ross Parmenter: "About the only thing...