Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unexciting. Under the bored and stony stares of Charlemagne and Saint Louis in the Luxembourg Palace, orators and translators droned on verbosely, while temporary chairman Georges Bidault listened politely from the sun flooded rostrum. Prime Minister Attlee did crossword puzzles. Molotov suffered in silence, his hands folded in his lap. Some delegates slept. Even the Gobelin-hung bar was quiet. Americans favored champagne; in the absence of vodka, the Russians went in for cognac. But, sighed the bartender: "Il n'y a pas d'ambiance-the atmosphere is blah. They drink hardly anything...
...divided into three zones (TIME, Aug. 5). However, if the U.S. would not concur, His Majesty's Government would have to "reconsider." Winston Churchill put it more bluntly. If the U.S. would not concur, he said, then Britain should dump the matter into the U.S.'s lap and get out of the country. That would effectively answer those who think that Britain is hanging on to Palestine as a military base in lieu of Egypt...
...rower the terms "single," "compromise," and "wherry" have little meaning. Coach Dennison explains that the difference is in the construction of the boat. The beginning boat is the wherry. This craft is often called a "klinker" or a "lap-streak...
Bert Lahr, who's been on the boards since you used to sit on your father's lap at the neighborhood Burlesque, romped into town this week with a routine that sent a front row of bald heads rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like...
...race to grab a bigger chunk of the world trade market than it ever had before, Britain passed the first lap last week. And it was running well ahead of its schedule to pay off its import debts by exporting 75% more goods than it did in 1938. Only six months ago, the goal seemed impossibly distant. Exports were barely 50% of the 1938 monthly rate...