Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash en route to the besieged Special Forces camp at Due Lap...
Before swinging into the last lap of his campaign, Hubert Humphrey paused to reflect on what had gone wrong, what part his own personality had played in his troubles and how he still hopes to govern the U.S. During an interview with Humphrey in Washington, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey found him newly self-confident, by turns introspective and expansive, self-pitying and resolutely cheery. Humphrey naturally stressed his role as the underdog, tended to blame outside factors for his difficulties, and spoke with such unwarranted optimism that his words occasionally took on an aura of unreality. Nonetheless, they mirror Humphrey...
...This is the first time that this has been dropped in the university's lap," Robert E. Gentry, director of the Harvard Office for Research Contracts, said yesterday. In the past, almost all research money has been awarded to individual professors heading projects, and the money has therefore been negotiated on a grant-by-grant basis. But, after the federal spending cuts, NSF set up fund ceilings for each institution--in Harvard's case, $5.395 million--based on the institution's expected allocations minus a certain percentage...
...Ninh was only the latest in a series of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese moves that have been puzzling to the Allies. The Communists continue a buildup of forces around Due Lap, a district capital of little strategic importance that was the scene last month of the summer's heaviest fighting. Though they have already lost more than 800 men in their unsuccessful attacks on Due Lap, they keep plugging away...
...historic Communist stronghold where the Viet Cong might attempt to set up a provisional government if they could win control of the city even temporarily. If that move succeeded, its propaganda value would be considerable. It would certainly make far more sense than assaults on such places as Due Lap and Tay Ninh...