Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carpeted B.U. hockey arena. The dixieland band plays only during warmups and between games, never between points. The Lobsters' mascot, a six-foot-tall bright orange cloth lobster with a tennis raquet in one claw, flaps his claws together decorously after good points, then folds them back in his lap...
...President William J. McGill revealed that "a very substantial number of trustees feel very strongly about the problem of approving a prize which seems to convey that the university is approving illegal acts." Some trustees also balked at rewarding White for a story that may have fallen in his lap. Said McGill: "The feeling is not that the reporter is at fault here but that the award is significant only because of the misdemeanor, and that seems to us to be Xerox journalism." White's colleagues defended him from that innuendo. They pointed out that though he spent last...
...mile men's novice race, for riders not registered with the Amateur Bicycle League, was turned to chaos by the rain and resulting slippery roads. The riders completed a control lap safely, but in the first turn at racing speed someone slipped and the resulting pile up reduced the pack of 40 to a pile of 30 scrapped riders and twisted bicycles...
...present, the President draws up his own budget, using the 428-man Office of Management and Budget to do his staff work, and dumps the huge volume into the lap of Congress in January. The document presented by Nixon this year is intimidating: it has 1,071 pages, weighs 2½ Ibs. and calls for spending $304.4 billion. Congress now has the power to revise the President's budget completely, but it lacks a centralized staff to analyze such a massive tome. More important, Congress is simply not organized to consider the proposal as a whole-or to perform...
Last March Wetzel entered his first lap race, the Italian 1000 Kilometers of Vallelunga. Drivers in the field included Mario Andretti...