Word: lapped
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...runs a daycare center out of her 32 Crescent Street home. Plastic play structures and baby strollers litter the front yard and porch. At 8:15 a.m., two children have already been dropped off to spend their day with Clark. The little girl sits on Clark’s lap and giggles at Sadie, the golden retriever, while the little boy plays with trains under a table...
...Maybe these guys were just ambivalent about America, like so much of the world, only to a psychotic extent. They liked our lap dances and convertibles and were repulsed by us at the same time. There's no need, of course, to understand the terrorists; it's only necessary to defeat them. Still, you kind of wonder...
...creeps over the theater, I remember to exhale. Some people clap at this point, probably relieved that the wait is over; I don’t, as I believe I would be overly compensating the techie who turned down the house lights. Instead, I shut the playbill in my lap, fold my arms, and simply stare at the stage. It doesn’t matter whether I’m about to see a show for the first time or the fifteenth, that moment still gets...
...vast following, Schumacher's determination not to be beaten has earned him few fans among other drivers. Jos Verstappen of Orange Arrows is said to be his only close friend. Last season Schumacher riled many drivers by using a racing rule that allows one change of direction per lap to dart across the track at the start of races. But those were just mild complaintsin comparison to the nadir his reputation hit after the final race of 1997, the European Grand Prix at Jerez. Then driving for Ferrari and neck-and-neck for the championship with Jacques Villeneuve, Schumacher...
...School Board Journal managing editor Jerome Cramer: "Schools are now asked to do what people asked God to do." The steady increase in the number of working mothers (35% work full time now) has sharply reduced family supervision of children and thrown many personal problems into the teacher's lap, while weakening support for the teacher's efforts. Says Thomas Anderson, 31, who plans to quit this month after teaching social studies for seven years in Clearwater, Fla.: "I know more about some of my kids than their mothers and fathers...