Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although he wobbled from side to side, bumped the buoy markers during his backstroke lap, the University of Southern California's Dennis Rounsavelle. 19, clipped nearly a second off George Harrison's world record for the 40-meter individual medley in the Men's A.A.U. swimming championships at Toieoc...
...Donna de Varona, 13, a 102-lb minnow from Berkeley, who turned in the most stunning performance of the meet. Trailing World Record-holder Sylvia Ruuska by two strokes in the last lap of the exacting 400-meter individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle). Donna summoned a last burst of speed, overtook 18-year-old Sylvia in the final yards, broke the world record by almost...
People's Choice. With only eight days to go before the start of the balloting, Lyndon Johnson galloped into the race later than any serious presidential hopeful on record. In setting off on his last-lap chase, he brought a surge of excitement into the race. More important, he raised an issue that will reverberate long after the convention is over and the last delegate has gone home. The issue: What is the business of a presidential nominating convention? By what criteria should it choose the nominee for the nation's highest and most powerful public office...
...Still shaking off the effects of a cold, University of Oregon's Dyrol Burleson, 20, easily moved from back in the pack on the second lap to take the lead in the 1,500 meters, turned on his famed finishing kick to open up a safe margin over Oregon Teammate Jim Grelle, casually glanced over his shoulder in the stretch and won as he pleased in a slow 3:46.9, a full 4.7 sec. off his best time...
...North End, which in 1630 was half island because of the waves that used to lap between Copp's Hill...