Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father, has been looking at Presidents for years. As a wide-eyed infant he watched Harry Truman's triumphal return to Washington after his 1948 election victory, and got so excited he dropped a toy from the balcony of the Senate Office Building almost into Truman's lap. But last week was the first time he ever talked to a President...
Mohammed told Khadija, his wife, of his vision of God and asked, "Do you believe it was a good or an evil spirit that revealed itself to me?" Whereupon his practical wife put the matter to an infallible test. She invited Mohammed to sit upon her lap. And when he had sat down, she asked, "Do you still behold the vision?" And when he replied that he did she began seductively to disrobe herself. And then she asked him once more, "Do you still see the vision?" "I can no longer see it. The vision has fled in bashfulness...
...memorable description of Mrs. Sidney Webb and her husband, both Shaw's fellow Fabians: "Her embraces sometimes seemed more like assaults than endearments. [Sidney] would sit in his chair, with a statistical abstract in one hand and a White Paper in the other, while she balanced on his lap like an entranced houri...
...would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady's jealous lap dog and busy blackamoor...
...Truman back-but they all found Harriman's Sam Rosenman immovably settled in the Truman suite. "We can't get any of our boys in to talk to the old man," mourned a top Stevenson adviser. "That s.o.b. is sitting right there in Truman's lap." All the Stevenson hopes were placed on Truman's Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, whose political judgment Truman had always trusted. Chapman walked into Truman's suite, saw Sam Rosenman sitting there, dug an elbow deep in Rosenman's heavily larded ribs, and snapped: "Get out of here...