Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.A.U. zoo-yd. race with a clear water eye. His big feet gripping the tiled rim of the pool, Wally knew just how he would swim this one-in the same slow-starting style that keeps his friends' and coaches' hearts in their mouths until the last lap...
Representative Rankin's pension plan for veterans of the two World Wars is now in the lap of a highly nervous Congress. This plan, which would give every veteran $90 a month beginning with his sixty-fifth year, is probably the most ambitious special interest plunge into the federal treasury ever attempted by mortal man. The Budget Bureau, in quivering tones, has reported that Mr. Rankin's boondoggle would cost the country something like $125,000,000,000 by the year...
Profits from tomorrow night's Student Council dance at Boston's Somerset Hotel will be the first major contribution as the drive enters its last lap. Several Harvard Glee Club concerts in New England and New York will raise the total further...
This week in Constitution Hall, Hans Kindler will conduct his farewell concert. When it is over, he will be off to Scandinavia, "teeming with ideas, as usual," he said. As far as he was concerned, the fate of Washington's orchestra was "in the lap of the gods...
Actually, the orchestra's fate was in a mortal lap. Next season, the orchestra's 38-year-old First Cellist Howard Mitchell will be wielding the baton instead of the bow. Handsome Howard Mitchell might need some Olympian help at that, however, since there were indications that it might not be forthcoming from some of the usual backers of the orchestra. One ardent Kindler supporter, who chipped in $41,000 for the orchestra last year, had pointedly limited himself to $10 in his first contribution this year...