Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wacker Fox's choice to head the program said recently that she also sees no problems resulting from the programs over lap. "We are recruiters and conscience raisers," she said of Harvard's project...
This movie tie-in all but fell into the lap of Hershey, which sold some $35 million worth of Reese's Pieces last year. E.T.'s producers offered to use the Hershey product only after Mars, Inc., maker of M & Ms, turned it down. Hershey Vice President Jack Dowd then flew to Hollywood to see still photos from the film and make sure that the candy was not going to be in a monster film...
...sitting around the room. He wears a camouflage suit, a pair of sneakers and a cap that looks like a sun hat with the brim turned up, his P.L.O. badge pinned to the front of it. He plunks down on a couch with a machine gun resting in his lap. Then he gives his visitor the business for publishing the name of his girlfriend in last winter's story. His visitor tells him to watch his manners or the girl's address will be published this time...
Following the workouts under the white tent, pretty girls and children queued up to sit on Cooney's broad lap and have their pictures taken with the bent-nosed Santa Claus. This silly sweet scene every day galled Hilly but delighted Cooney. "Little kids are the best part of being a celebrity," he said, bouncing a squirmy set of twin babies. "What good is this doing us?" Hilly fumed. As for the pretty girls, Cooney, a bachelor, regretfully subscribes to the boxing axiom that women have ruined more men than war and pestilence. He talks daily by telephone...
...stopped by rain after 332.5 miles. "It seems throughout my career," he says, "that it hasn't been meant for me to run 500 miles." This year Johncock managed to hold on for a full-length victory, though the jaws of defeat were snapping close behind. With 13 laps left, Johncock's STP Wildcat-Cosworth was 12 sec. ahead of the second-place car, a Penske-Ford driven by Rick Wears, 30. Then Mears began closing in, gaining almost a second a lap. Johncock kept thinking desperately, "Is it going to stay together? Is it going to stay...