Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning, the Soviet bear hug seemed full of earthy cordiality. At Stalin's old dacha 60 miles southeast of Moscow, Macmillan and Khrushchev jaunted companionably through the pine woods in a troika, sharing a lap robe and chatting with apparent candor about the great issues of the cold war. Next night in the British embassy Khrushchev harked back to the Geneva Conference of 1955 (which Macmillan attended as Britain's Foreign Minister), warmly told the Prime Minister: "It was with your help that the Geneva spirit was created...
Although he is no longer in college, Ron Delany of Ireland could still steal the show tonight in the special Louis S. Zamperini Mile. Last week, he caught Hungarian Istvan Rozsavolgyi with one of his stirring last-lap charges and finished first...
Hammond's win in the fly, after nearly coming off a sick bed to do so, pointed up a magnificent team display. Trailing for most of the race, the varsity captain drove with a tremendous push for the final lap to pass Baker short of the finish...
...after a white mother complained that the older boy had forced her seven-year-old daughter to kiss him. The boys' version of the story: they were playing down in a culvert with several other white boys and girls; there, two of the girls sat on the laps of white boys, and a third sat on Thompson's lap and kissed him. The Negro boys, who had already been in minor scrapes with the local police (housebreaking, petty thievery), were committed, without formal charges or trial, to the reform school for an indeterminate term...
Your account of the murderous assault attempted on Mr. Rountree leads me to think that any day now we will be able to persuade the Iraqis to accept a generous contribution from us. Just to keep them friendly, you know (and out of the lap of the Russians)-like Nasser (whose trained mobs stoned Americans passing out free CARE packages), and Tito (who has kindly accepted $900 million from us, and voted recently with Russia on the Hungarian resolutions...