Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shut up." Moments later he paused and clonked something below. Left-wing kibitzers in the studio audience? No, Buckley's target was his King Charles spaniel Rowley, which he had brought to the studio. Showing that he bore no ill will, Rowley then jumped into Buckley's .lap and planted a slurpy kiss on his cheek. All of which left Hentoff with somewhat more of an interview than he had expected. Said the show's producer later, "You can hear barking on the tape...
...least one was-Sally Kellerman, 30 pounds overweight then and always unhappy in love. "I would sit on Jack's lap and pour out my heart to him," she says. For sustenance they would go to the supermarket for some "sweeties and souries"-ice cream and potato chips-and gorge between traumas. "Jack was the funniest man in the world," Kellerman recalls, "and always available when I needed him-a true friend...
...Brian follows where duty leads, which is downward, to the linoleum floor of his office. But Wendy is not detached from her obsession. She flutters to the floor several times a week, like a napkin off a fat man's lap. When Brian is absent she writes rumbustious letters, one of which is intercepted by his beautiful, intelligent, talented and rather dull wife, 39-year-old Erica...
...rival on the big national stories, especially in the years of Viet Nam and Watergate. Reporter James R. Polk did win a Pulitzer Prize this year for a series on the financing of the 1972 Nixon campaign. But the Star-News' most notable recent exclusive fell in its lap: an interview with the President right after his 1972 victory, granted in retaliation for the Post's Watergate digging...
...happened to Martha." She was playful with Woodward. "Come on," she teased, "you voted for Richard Nixon in '68, didn't you?" A ruffled Bob admitted it. Bernstein huffily remarked that there was such a thing as the secret ballot. Later, Martha jumped into Carl's lap, just to show that there were no hard feelings...