Word: lapped
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...Kathleen Taylor where she wants to travel next, and she has a laundry list ready: South Africa, Russia, Australia. Maybe it's the complimentary stays in the lap of luxury Taylor is guaranteed as the Four Seasons' new head of global business and hotel operations--a perk that should explain an average tenure of 17 years among company managers. But more likely, it's the sense of wonderment at the world that Taylor, 49, brings to her job. Describing new hotels in China, India and Italy, she gushes. Explaining why Four Seasons still builds new properties in the volatile Middle...
...looked at me and said, 'Would you sleep with me?' I said no. Then he said, 'Would you marry me?' I said maybe. Obviously on Monday I went in to resign. But Max apologized. Then I went to his house and saw him sitting with his daughters on his lap, hugging them so gently, and I thought to myself, If that man could love me half as much as he loves his children, I would be the happiest woman in the world...
...raise money for charity while deflecting unwanted cameras. Britney Spears and Kevin Federline cuddled up to newborn Sean Preston on the cover of People last fall. Within months photographers so harassed Spears that she was caught on film driving her SUV away from them with babe dangerously held on lap. Despite the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin staged a perfectly lovely canoodling shot outside her obstetrician's office in 2003, flashbulbs continue to click every time the couple leave their London home with tots Apple and Moses in tow. And for years the British Royal Family has meted...
...western Kenya, it was as a 26-year-old backpacker exploring his family roots. In 1987, he and half-sister Auma rode a dilapidated old bus from Kisumu, the provincial capital, 60 miles away. As they lurched along dirt roads, a couple of chickens nestled in Obama's lap and mothers passed wet babies back and forth to the two young visitors. Obama spent his time in Kogelo, a small rural village where people grow maize and raise cows, getting to know his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama and wandering the fields and dirt lanes his late father had walked...
...Suga Mama ("I'ma be like your Jolly Rancher, that you get from the corner store/ Or I'ma be like a waffle cone that's drippin' down to the floor") is another song so exuberant in its desire to entertain that it literally invites you onto its lap...