Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search had looked up the rectum of a lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps. Few attorneys dared to pipe back publicly. So for twelve years Judge Cannon presided as a choice gossip topic...
Tooling along 1-65 in Alabama, headed for Montgomery, the driver of the green '68 Volkswagen checked the road in front of him, then glanced at the papers in his lap and occasionally leaned over to scribble on a yellow legal pad. After 2½ hours on the road, Lawyer Morris Dees, 37, somehow arrived safely at his office. By then he had finished going over the transcript of Johnny Harris' trial...
...style with disdain. Instead of pacing himself and saving a kick for the last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun's seven-year-old 1,500-meter world record with a time of 3:32.2-equivalent...
Bayi is the prototype. A streamlined 5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs., he glides along with the grace of a gazelle and the stamina of a steer. Unlike most long-distance runners, whose faces are studies in agony after the first lap, Bayi, 21, almost looks as if he is out for a leisurely Sunday lope; occasionally, he can be seen smiling faintly when his lead turns insurmountable. His only concessions to strain are frequent glances over his shoulder to see if anyone has kept...
...after Smith's announcement, Cambridge Mayor, Walter J. Sullivan, corralled four other councilors, and couched in the rhetoric of getting more Cambridge people involved in the task force, the mayor drafted a resolution to remove the agency from the city manager's office and dump it in his own lap. Although Sullivan didn't get his way, he did gain the right to stock the task force with twelve people, possibly people aligned with his view favoring the museum. And when Sullivan goes to Smith this weekend to offer his last ditch stand to keep the archives and the museum...