Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journey to Mars. When they arrive in February and March, two of the ships are expected to make soft landings while the other two remain in orbit around the Red Planet. Meanwhile, the U.S.'s Mariner 10 spacecraft was well on its way to Venus on the initial lap of the first two-planet, photo-reconnaissance flight. After Mariner has swept by Venus in February, using the braking force of that planet's gravity to change course, it will pass next March within 621 miles of Mercury, the tiny, scorched planet closest...
...will allow. But the collaboration of a young crafts man and a modern-day old master have transformed it into something bold and new. Bright color plays against the hemp's rich browns, big shapes against the intricacy of woven texture, gay in genuity against humble utilitarian bur lap. Formidable...
...design changes-and price increases ranging from $61 to $271 a car-stem from Government-ordered improvements in safety and antipollution features. The new models have advanced emission control units, reinforced roofs and strong, impact-absorbing bumpers. Motorists will notice most the federally mandated seat-belt interlock system. Lap and shoulder belts have been combined into one harness with a lock that completes an electric circuit with the starter. If the driver or a front-seat passenger fails to lock the harness, the car will not start. (If the car does not start even after the harnesses are locked...
...controversy over the Afro-American Studies Department has fallen into Dean Rosovsky's lap and no doubt Rosovsky himself must lead the Faculty to an eventual resolution of the dispute...
...picture of my old high school girlfriend on John Harvard's overused lap was from the fall of 1969. The picture of my closest friend astride the railing of 'The Ranch' in Newton was taken a few weeks ago. In between these moments the student movement came and went; Harvard won and lost two games to Yale; Nixon beat McGovern; dope and acid waxed and waned and waxed again. The moments that have been lost vastly outnumber those saved, and what I couldn't find as I looked is significant as well...