Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forget that the Atlantic has a bigger circulation in California than in Massachusetts. In the Atlantic's ivy-covered Back Bay brownstone home on Arlington Street, opposite the Public Garden, Weeks labors at a furious pace. He does much of his work in a Windsor chair with his lap full of manuscripts, shortens interviews by seating visitors in an uncomfortable straight-backed Italian chair...
...Democratic and Catholic unionists may stop Anglo-American bullets on the picket lines if trouble starts. If some trigger-happy Tommies or G.I.s begin shooting, Germany's all-important working class center (members of the Socialist and Christian Democratic Union parties) might be pushed right into the Communist lap, where they will be reassured to feel that they had the 'support of brother working class parties of the Cominform countries...
...found itself staring at the newest problem in its lap: What now? Said Britain's Colonial Secretary, who doubles as a delegate: ". . . The mandate should now be terminated. ... I earnestly hope that the United Nations may have more success than the United Kingdom has had in persuading [Jews and Arabs] to cooperate. . . ." As he spoke, Jewish representatives and Arab committeemen sat with their backs to each other...
...reported to practice this fall as the unofficial National AAU long distance champion, as a result of his summer performance at Williams Lake, Rosendale, New York. In a field of almost thirty competitors, cream of the country's long distance aces, Norris never relinquished the lead in the eight-lap four-mile grind...
Until now the chief stumbling block, Great Britain has decided that her present method of safe-guarding Middle Eastern oil is too costly. She is prepared to discard her mandate if the UN or some other group assumes the burdens of immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West...