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Word: lapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before that, he tugged at his mother's pearls when she held him and squirmed in his father's lap when the President, who could not lift the boy because of his bad back, could corral him for a few seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy We Called John-John | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...their last appearances together, a dinner at the Kennedy Library for J.F.K.'s birthday, a library patron was struck by how happy the two children and their spouses were taking up where Jackie left off. "At the end of dinner, Carolyn was sitting on John's lap. And there were Ed and Caroline, leaning into each other, catching each other's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Then There Was One | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...clouds into the cabin, so that the pilot takes out a can of powerful insecticide--"Jeez, this is going to smell really putrid," he cheerfully announces--and sprays them down. Then you take off. Forty minutes later, you land in Coober Pedy, with dead flies in your lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fella Down a Hole | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...viewer. That's hard to find now that moviegoing is essentially an infantile experience. We convene in a big, dark room and laugh at what shocks us. This may be why the consumption of movie eroticism has become solitary. Porn theaters have given way to triple-X videos, lap dancing to laptops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Defense of Dirty Movies | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...twists. For starters, it has made the once gawky Clinton Administration far more confident mixing force and diplomacy overseas. Last week a buoyed Clinton, greatly relieved that NATO jets weren't still flying attack sorties over the former Yugoslavia, took his own jet for a postwar, feel-good victory lap in Europe. Air Force One stopped first in Paris, where Clinton had a cozy bistro dinner with French President Jacques Chirac. Next it was off to Cologne for a conference of Western leaders. Clinton ended the week with a visit to the two icons of his military campaign--scratchless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping The Peace: The Three Ifs of a Clinton Doctrine | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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