Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slot, challenges Allison on the very first turn of the five-eighths-of-a-mile course. The sellout crowd roars in anticipation of a repeat of last year's race when Petty waged a long fender-crashing duel with Allison before pulling ahead to win in the final laps. But Petty, a "charger" who likes to "drive the way I feel it," plays it crafty. Instead of "drafting"−a risky tactic Petty invented, in which he practically sits on an opponent's tail pipe, using the partial vacuum created by the lead car as a fuel...
...remember being only mildly stirred to see him with Missy on his lap as he sat in the main stateroom [of Franklin D. Roosevelt's houseboat, the Larooco], holding her in his sun-browned arms." So goes Elliott Roosevelt's account of his father's affair with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 20 years. In his already controversial forthcoming book An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott says that everyone within the family, including Eleanor, accepted Missy's intimacy with the President. Another skeleton Elliott rattles with apparent enthusiasm is that of Joseph...
...each successive frame the royal expression got curiouser and curiouser. With her camera resting on her lap in the best tourist manner, Queen Elizabeth was cheerfully taking tea and watching a parade of elephants while on her tour of Thailand last year. Suddenly, in a series of baffling photographs just published in London, Elizabeth registered first dismay, then pain, then a rictus of what looked like sheer agony. Was it that tea? A tack on the chair? Back trouble? Horst Ossinger, the German photographer who caught the moment with a telephoto lens, and won the Holland World Press Photo Contest...
...supposed author, Charles W. Hinkle, the Pentagon's director for security review. Hinkle, who was Miller's direct superior, then took the stand to say he had "no recollection" of anything of the sort. That plopped the matter right back in Judge Byrne's lap and left him once again in the middle. If he concludes that the Government did try to withhold the studies, it would greatly add to the importance of the studies' evidence and might leave the prosecution open to censure by the court...
...Chen's import franchise fell into her lap when she got a visa to visit relatives in China last year. Liao Chia-Jeng, a brother who was killed in the Shanghai Rising of 1928, had become a popular Communist hero. When Chinese officials realized that Liao was her brother, they let her travel unescorted throughout the country for two months, asked her to be an adviser to the Chinese Board of Trade and granted her the import concession...