Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meter run. He won his first steeplechase and soon was chosen for the Kenyan Olympic team. In Mexico, he won his heat in unspectacular time, displaying an awkward style that made purists prickle. In the final, he was 30 yds. behind the leaders with one lap to go. Suddenly, Amos Biwott, 21, took off like a hartebeest in a bush fire, hitting the front on the last turn and thereby becoming one of the least-expected winners in Olympic history...
...program for encouraging good readers that requires a minimum of preparation by the parent? Hold your child on your lap and read to him regularly...
...suits made for him by a tailor in Zagreb, Yugoslavia; all dressed up, he is the picture of a Russian Deputy Minister of Power and Electricity. Bachelor Bobby does not have time for dating. He once said that when God gets ready, he will drop a girl in his lap. Most often, he rises late in a day that almost invariably ends with chess, chess, chess until dawn. Then he dozes off to the soothing swoosh...
...Henry A. Kissinger with Iranian Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Siseo. Her kohl-rimmed eyes gleaming, Nadia undulated over to the tables where the VIPS were sitting. Then, while Iranian plainclothesmen efficiently stymied the photographers, she nestled herself on Kissinger's lap for three minutes or so. "A delightful girl," said Henry the K later, "very interested in foreign policy." What had they talked about? Answered Kissinger, with a straight face: "I spent some time explaining how you convert S57 missiles to Y Class submarines...
...continued to pound the besieged city of An Loc north of Saigon, other enemy forces edged closer to the capital itself. Fighting broke out near Cu Chi, an ARVN headquarters astride the "Saigon corridor" between Cambodia and the capital, and enemy troops briefly occupied the nearby village of Trung Lap, only 20 miles from Saigon. At week's end, rocket teams were reported to have slipped into positions north and south of the tense capital...