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Word: lapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stretched his lead to perhaps ten yards as the crowd became increasingly noisy. Liquori, meanwhile, was running third, and made his move with a lap and a half to go. The spectators became even louder as he started closing the gap on Colburn and finally passed him just before the gun lap...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Superb Effort By Colburn Gives Him Second In Mile | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

After five laps of the 22-lap race. Jerry Richey of Pittsburgh went by him. and after another two laps. Pottetti was running eighth. He never challenged after that, but did rally enough to turn in the best time of his career-8:54.6, two seconds faster than his winning time in the Big Three two weeks...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Superb Effort By Colburn Gives Him Second In Mile | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...Colburn got off to a very poor start, then came from behind with three-fourths of a lap to go, and outleaned teammate Tom Downer-who finished second-and Princeton's Fred Schnure at the tape. All three registered 1:12.2 clockings. Colburn's win built the Crimson's lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colburn Leads Thinclads To Win Over Elis, Tigers | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

Someone's Jewish mother got more than she bargained for when longhaired, loin-clothed (if you can call suede strips wrapped around blue bikini briefs a Join cloth) Berger, played by Canadian recording star Atan Nicholls, climbed over three rows of seats to sit bare- assed in her lap. And H AIR's hairy cast beckoned in the Age of Aquaritis in its 740th captivating performance at New York's Bill more Theatre...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: HAIR: | 2/14/1970 | See Source »

...black actor with a giant Afro wig swings across the theatre on a Tarzan swing, and other members of the cast climb almost to the balcony in the sets constructed out along the theatre's walls. The audience is uptight when loin- clothed Berger first climbs out into its lap, panhandling for a dime; but the illusion of spectator distance begins to fade with the progress of the play. The audience comes to realize that the onstage performance is only a segment of the Hair experience, and the evening's real drama lies in their own transformed enlightenment...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: HAIR: | 2/14/1970 | See Source »

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