Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's other firsts came in the 200-yard butterfly and the dive. In the butterfly event, the Crimson's Joe Stets faded on the last lap, but managed to hold off a strong finish by Navy's Evans...
...sleep. Pretty soon she has trained the poor yap to fetch, carry, make spaniel eyes, sit up and beg for his supper and think all the while what a lucky dog he is. But one day somebody tells him how his wife has deliberately turned him into a lap dog, and he sets up a terrible howl. "I am a hunter," he snaps at his spouse as he leaves the house, "and I still haven't forgotten how to point...
...city editor. And for seven loud years, he steered the newsroom through a stirring and gaudy time. Speakeasies flourished. Lindbergh had just hopped the Atlantic; Babe Ruth had just hit 60 home runs. J. Pierpont Morgan posed for photographers with a lady midget in his lap. Resting peacefully in his room at the Park Central Hotel, Manhattan Gambler Arnold Rothstein was dispatched by a murderer's bullet...
Britten's most unrestrained admirers harbored some doubts about how his Mass would be received in Germany. As the Berlin Philharmonic began playing the Mass last week, perhaps the most nervous man in the house was Britten himself, perched in the tenth row with the score in his lap...
...William Gibson. Like the play, the film tells the story of Gittel's affair with a visiting fireman who has run out of steam, a lawyer (Robert Mitchum) from Omaha whose problems gee with Gittel's. She has been a doormat for men, he has been a lap dog for his wife. He needs self-reliance, she needs self-respect...