Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such veterans as a 1906 Model K Ford, a 1923 Kissel and a 1925 Alvis made each lap with ease. As far as the spectators were concerned, they were merely pace setters. The crowd was all with Tusek and his scorched, drum-nosed Steamer. Desperately, he got up at dawn each day to tinker with new fuel mixtures. Somehow he managed to keep up with the pack...
...classic understatement of the year was made by Miss Binde, the German student at the University of Illinois [TIME, Aug. 23]. She the probably was too polite to elaborate. Her ability to lap up a four-year college course in little more than a year, she states, was because "the general level [of education] is a little more advanced in Germany." Ha! I say it's a great deal more advanced all over Europe. Why? Because European children are not coddled, nor is their precious earning time wasted in hours of drawing, gym, music, crafts...
...Bern, Switzerland, a band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to Finland's Veikko Karvonen, who had no qualms about right-hand turns. In what may be his last appearance on the track, Britain's Roger Bannister loafed to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter run. His time...
...Friday evening, about dark, a bullet entered the residence of Henry Potter, South H Street ... It passed through a north window of the kitchen, showering bits of glass upon a paper which Mr. Potter was reading and into the hair of a child he was holding on his lap, then struck an iron pot standing on the stove at which Mrs. Potter was cooking, when it fell flattened into a pan in which a beefsteak was being cooked . . . Where the bullet came from was a mystery, and the Potter family hope that no one is angry at them...
Because the Senate committee decided not to face up to the ethical and political problems, the case, to the delight of Democrats, will be in the lap of embarrassed Republicans right up to the November elections. Republican Senators know this, but Sergeant Friday's influence is too strong. All they want is the facts...