Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheerers were silent with dismay when the first heat ended. Soon after Miss Great Lakes II conked out for good with a cracked gear box, Slo-mo IV lost a propeller and also dropped out. On the sixth 3-mile lap, Slo-mo V Driver Lou Fageol knew his boat was a goner: water spewing ominously from the exhaust meant that a cylinder had blown. Detroit's Miss Pepsi won the heat at a speed of 101.0242 m.p.h. in the fastest boat race of all time...
...final round Ashenfelter got off to a bad start, still trailed the field going into the second lap. But by the third lap the G-man and the Russian were out ahead of the field. When the brass bell signaled the seventh and final lap they were still shoulder to shoulder...
...what mothers would be looking for. So on the hot, week-long troop-train ride from New York to San Francisco, while a beer party flowed at one end of his Pullman and a petty officer noisily snored in the seat opposite, Lieut. Commander Spock patiently indexed away, his lap lost under galley proofs and long sheets which slowly filled up with 1,500 entries like "Bottle feeding-bubbling," and "Bedtime-keeping it happy." Part of Spock's drive stems, perhaps, from the fact that he was not a Spock baby himself. His father was a successful New Haven...
...average attitude was well expressed at West University Place by a plump young matron holding a little girl in her lap. "My first reaction," she said, "was that I didn't want my child to be a guinea pig. But then I got to thinking." Other mothers nodded, recognizing the pattern of their own afterthoughts. "It can't hurt them," the plump one went on, "so we haven't lost a thing in coming. We've got a 50-50 chance with each child of getting gamma globulin, and if we get it we know...
Returning, apparently cameraless this time, he had hidden a small Japanese Nikon camera in the centerfold of a thick report that one of the delegates had passed out. Keeping the report on his lap, he aimed the camera with his knees. Later he inadvertently got help from a rival photographer. Hidden behind a piano, the photographer tried to take a flashlight shot. While one guard chased after him and the others were preoccupied with the hearing, Miller stood up and shot the rest of his film, giving LIFE all the pictures it wanted of the meetings that had been "closed...