Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open, airy Prime Minister's residence, allows the 70 children of his servants the run of the house; visiting diplomats are often surprised during a conference to see a servant's child wander into the sitting room and climb up onto the Tunku's lap...
...years past, Chevy's Corvette sports car could hardly stay on the same track with a serious-minded Ferrari. But the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray is new from its independent rear suspension to its fastback body shell. On a casual test lap, a Sting Ray zipped around the twisting, 5.2-mile Sebring course in 3 min. 12 sec. -beating the official track record set by Ferrari last year. Then came Ford with the hybrid AC Cobras, developed by ex-racer Carroll Shelby, with a light British body hiding a huge 350-h.p. Ford engine. The Cobras claimed...
...ninth act, Sam has died, and Nina sinks gratefully into a twilight-sleepy love offered by "dear old Charlie" Marsden (William Prince), a desexed lap dog who has trotted devotedly in Nina's shadow since she was a girl. Obviously, O'Neill thought that his characters had richly exhausted life, but the prevailing impression left by the play is that life has thoroughly exhausted them...
With a half-mile to go, Beatty's lead grew to half a lap, and 16,759 fans suddenly came alive. Throughout the last two laps, the stamping, clapping, cheering followed Beatty's steady course around the Chicago Stadium like a series of breakers rolling onto a beach. Beatty sailed through the tape, crossed himself, continued jog ging, and waved happily to the crowd. The judges announced his time: 8 min. 30.7 sec.-almost exactly according to plan and a new world record, by nearly 4 sec. Coach Igloi paid Beatty his supreme compliment. "He does," said Igloi...
...Steve Clark and Mike Austin swept the 50-yard freestyle in 21.5 for another Eastern mark, and the Bulldog medley relay team touched out Princeton to win in 3:40.7. Austin won that race for the Yalies by making up a huge deficit with a 47.0 freestyle anchor lap...