Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speedway that hard-driving Gordon Reid, 29, was a man to watch. "Flash" Reid was rated as a comer and was scheduled to drive in the Memorial Day race at Indianapolis. Fourteen thousand spectators were watching as Reid, gaining steadily, roared into third place in Dayton's ten-lap event. So, tensely, was Charlie Engle, the builder of Reid's low, powerful Engle-Stanko Special...
Most disappointed Terrier was Bill Smith, who was upset by the Crimson's Ronnie Berman in the best race of the day. Smith was expecting to win handily, after his 1:54 time last week, but a slow first lap and a brilliant stretch kick resulted in a yard victory for Berman...
Berman lost the 880 lead after the first lap but came back in the last 300 yards to win easily by 15 yards over Dick Conde of the Rams. Berman's time was a very good...
...given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings. One day, chance dropped her in his lap, and "arter that I wur never in want for the nicest bit o' pudden in the world...
...have anything to do with them during working hours. The one time he broke this vow was on a day that shells were whistling over his head while his landing boat was pulling into the Inchon beachhead, and a sudden swerve sent a pretty young columnist flying into his lap. The somewhat embarrassed Davies recovered his equilibrium, however, and went on to become one of the top war correspondents, covering the Pacific campaign for the Newark Evening News...