Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson thinclads opened a long lead on the second lap of the mile relay and held on to win and defeat Northeastern, 63-55, Saturday at Briggs Cage...
More than half a billion miles from earth this week, a small (570 Ibs.), unmanned spacecraft is completing the first lap of an incredible journey. As it hurtles past Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 m.p.h., some 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, Pioneer 11 is slated to use its cameras and instruments to reconnoiter the solar system's largest planet. That will be only part of its task. As it passes 26,000 miles above Jupiter's turbulent cloudtops, the spacecraft will be pulled by the planet's gravitational field into a corkscrew-shaped...
...park our car down the exit road. On our way out I hear a man exclaiming: "I think just seeing what's going on here is fun." By the time the race starts it is 3:30 and we are again standing at turn 6. The race is 59 laps long. On the 10th lap there is a spinout down the straightaway. The next day I will learn the driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died crashing under the guardrail. He was decapitated. Standing next to us is a man with a radio who tells us the lap numbers. After the first...
...exaggeration perhaps. When J.P. Morgan testified at a Senate banking investigation in 1933, a circus pressagent put a midget on his lap...
President Ford is expected to sign the bill; soon after he does, manufacturers will stop making the systems, and motorists can legally have them disconnected. As a replacement, the legislation suggests that the government develop regulations for a three-point lap-and shoulder-belt system that can mildly chide nonusers by lighting a dashboard warning signal and sounding a one-shot buzz for a mere eight seconds-but that will not prevent any driver from starting the engine or unbuckling en route...