Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchman named Charles Chanson and a Vietnamese named Thai Lap Thanh were among the men most hated by Indo-China's Communists. General Chanson, 49, Commander of the French-Indo-Chinese forces in South Viet Nam, was an able career officer who liked to plan his own operations and go up to the front to see them carried out. Working closely with Thai Lap Thanh, 54, Governor of South Viet Nam, General Chanson scored decisive victories last May and June against the Communist Viet Minh guerrillas. Last month, meeting somewhere in the broad green swamps of the Plaine...
Last week in the little town of Sadec, 60 miles southwest of Saigon, French and Vietnamese soldiers were drawn up for an official inspection by General Chanson and Governor Thai Lap Thanh. In the crowded town square, white-kepied Foreign Legionnaires and red-capped Spahis paraded to military music, while peasants, townsfolk and children waved Vietnamese paper flags. As Chanson and Thanh got out of their Nash in front of the governor's residence, the soldiers presented arms, trumpeters sounded the general's call. General Chanson stood at attention and saluted...
...King himself had been driving). Haggard with grief, Leopold returned to his country home at Stuyvenberg. His three children were playing on the lawn: Josephine-Charlotte careening down the paths on her bicycle, five-year-old Baudouin in panting pursuit, and Baby Albert on his nurse's lap. Unable to speak, the King turned away, sent out a lady in waiting to tell the children the news...
...Bonneville Salt Flats, veteran Racing Driver Ab Jenkins warmed up his old Mormon Meteor, which has carried him to world records at every distance from 50 kilometers (at 172.92 m.p.h.) to 1,000 miles (at 172.8 m.p.h.), for a last fling at some new records. On the twelfth lap around the twelve-mile course, hitting 200 m.p.h., the Meteor skidded and mowed down a line of wooden markers before Jenkins could straighten out. As the car began to heat up and smoke, because of a punctured radiator hose line, Jenkins braked to a stop and jumped to safety...
...each day's lap, the panting winner is warmly bussed by the local beauty queen, wined & dined by the citizenry and allowed to wear the coveted yellow sweater (le maillot jaune). The eventual winner of the yellow sweater stands to gain some 5,000,000 /rancs ($15,000) in prize money and commercial premiums. When Italy's Bartali won in 1948, the Pope himself sent a telegram of congratulation and blessing...