Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hatches & Horrors. Twice the President had to duck objects hurled at him. One time a dagger was thrown; it was made of rubber. Another time, during a parade, a well-wrapped ham sandwich dropped into his lap from an apartment house in The Bronx...
...five-day series on abuses in Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee's command had touched off a full-scale Army investigation (TIME, Aug. 25). Perhaps some of Ruark's loud charges about mistreatment of enlisted men, and about officers lolling in luxury's lap, might not stand up. But dispatches in the New York Times and in Scripps-Howard papers last week listed some "sudden improvements" in the area, indicating that General Lee had felt and yielded to the power of the press...
...soon turns out that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
Nothing Doing in Owosso. In his native Michigan, on the last lap of his trip, he had encountered a distinct coolness among Republican state leaders. To be sure, they came to visit him at Owosso, where he spent four days with his mother, Mrs. Annie Dewey (whom he calls "Mater"). With Arthur Vandenberg on their minds, Michigan Republicans were noncommittal about even a second-or third-ballot vote for Dewey. But Dewey was confident they would come...
Most of the way through Belgium and down to the Riviera, then through the Basque country and up to Brittany, the leader was Frenchman René Vietto, the favorite. But on the tough St. Brieuc-Caen lap, a countryside which U.S. troops also found tough going three years ago, Vietto tired. Almost half of the entrants had dropped out. Up moved Italian Pierre Brambilla and Breton Jean Robic...