Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's Ronald Berman scored the only American win in the running events when he came from last at the end of the first lap to catch a Cambridge opponent at the tape in a 1:54 half-mile...
...apparently taken from the farmhouse fuel tank. A moment later, they found the owner of the sedan. Adamic was lying on his back on a couch in an upstairs bedroom. He was wearing dungarees and a windbreaker, with a pillow at his back, a .22 Mossberg rifle across his lap-and a bullet wound just above his right ear. He was dead...
...hopelessly smudged. If Adamic had committed suicide, why had he felt it necessary to go to the trouble of burning his house and garage and preparing to burn his barn? Why had he left no note? And how could he have shot himself, then returned the rifle to his lap? But if he had been murdered by someone who set the fires to destroy evidence, why hadn't he resisted while the rifle was held so close to his head that it left a powder burn...
...Noble's hair was white, his face lined, his arms stiff from old wounds. He drove occasionally to Dallas in an armored Ford to buy groceries and beer (he was afraid to drink anything stronger), but always in daylight and always with a rifle lying across his lap as he drove. Most of the time he stayed forted up in the stone house at his ranch. He had rigged floodlights to the eaves on every side and installed watchdogs (heavy-duty Dalmatians and tiny, yapping Chihuahuas). As an additional alarm system, he kept screaming peacocks and cackling guinea hens...
...really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h. for the 30-mile heat...