Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as "Operation North" rolled out of Dawson Creek on the first lap of its 2,000-mile Alcan tour, General Worthington said: "We are not pointing the finger at any nation . . . but we have to consider if any enemy exists, just where he would come and why."* At week's end, as the caravan rolled north in trucks and autos, the only enemies encountered were dust and mosquitoes...
...late Great Moments in Music (and wife of the sponsor's president, Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America), had a frightening moment in a friend's car. The door swung open and the singer, riding with the friend's 18-month-old son on her lap, landed in the street. Plump Soprano Tennyson got a bunged-up face; the baby landed unharmed...
...Bogart) hires on to help a tough old millionaire out of a bit of blackmail. Before he even knows her, one of the old man's daughters (Martha Vickers), a thumbsucking type with beautiful legs, indicates her depravity by trying, as the detective says, to sit on his lap while he is standing up. Her elder sister looks like, and is Lauren Bacall (Mrs. Humphrey Bogart); she seems to be interested in buying Marlowe out of the case, either by fiscal or physical currency. Still another compensation (Dorothy Malone), after only a few minutes' talk about rare editions...
...guide donors into bequests and gifts that will coincide more closely with current needs? If it is true that 'Harvard can get money for the things it needs when it needs them," a feeling shared by high-ranking members of the faculty, then the onus drops back into the lap of the administration. If, as is claimed by members of the Business Staff, there is very little control over whatever money that is donated, then all the faculty and poor boys can do is pray-or go to work on the affluent alumni so that future endowments will...
...space, pick up stars, writers and directors on the run, and share his profits with the industry's entrenched distributors. Now fast-failing Universal Pictures, the sixth largest company in town, had dropped 230 acres of lot space and 31 key domestic distribution offices into International's lap. Included in Universal's assets was the first crack at the more than 1,000 theaters owned by British Film Magnate J. Arthur Rank. Mr. Goetz could hardly contain himself...