Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time since the Chinese Communists forced Marxian enlightenment upon his Himalayan country five years ago. In journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...
...Marcelino went to see the Lord every day. When it thundered, he went to calm the Lord's fears; when it was cold, he brought him a blanket. One day the Lord came down from the cross and sat in a chair, and took the boy on his lap. "What are mothers like?" Marcelino asked. And the Lord said, ''They give, Marcelino, all the time. Everything, in full measure." Then Marcelino said, "I want to see my mother . . . and yours too, afterwards." And the Lord replied, "You will have to go to sleep. Go to sleep, Marcelino...
...refinery manager for the Ohio Oil Co. But the real mainstay is Novelist Jones, who has expressed his whopping gratitude to Lowney by sinking $60,000 of his royalties in the colony and naming it a beneficiary in his will. Jones is on the last lap of a mammoth second novel (600,000 words written) about a love affair between a returned war veteran and a schoolteacher. He took eight years to write Eternity. "Today I can do in two years with my system," says Lowney proprietarily, "what it took Jim to do in eight...
...Wyler's first TV venture, The Letter also may well be his last. Though an "exciting one-shot experiment," he found himself "out of control" in the medium. "I don't want to be in the lap of the gods; I want the gods to be in my lap." Wyler also observes of TV: "One night, and it's gone. On the other hand, a movie is always there. It goes all over the world, and people see it when they feel like...
...York City, for example, it would come as a surprise to most newspaper readers that Negroes comprise 10% of the population but commit about 35% of the crime.*Says a police official in a big California city: "Sixty percent of our crime lies squarely in [the Negroes'] lap, and the papers ought to show the community what the crime problem is and where it is. It's only fair reporting, no more. It would pressure responsible Negroes into doing something about...