Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Place & Show. In Omaha, Marty Kaplan, ahead in the last lap of a swimming race, put on his stretch drive, swam right out of his trunks, got rattled, finished second...
Last week something got done about it in a hurry. A plum dropped in his lap - the $22,500-a-year tax-freer vice-presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Regretfully, President Truman accepted Harold Smith's resignation, wrote him a glowing farewell : "Besides great ability, you brought to the work fidelity, integrity and loyalty...
...Seat. In Paris, twice-escaped convict Matthew Spence went to the movies, sat down on a criminal investigation agent's lap, promptly went back in the clink...
...checkered flag dropped. Thirty-three low-slung, supercharged autos growled and pushed for position. On the straightaway, 50-year-old Ralph Hepburn got the pace up to a deafening 168 m.p.h. On the 16th lap, a Fageol Special bucked on the northwest turn, sailed over the wall. During the first hour, 14 cars had to stop at the pits for repairs...
McSorley's "own kind," the Irish, and Hollywood, which is currently underwriting a Celtic Renaissance, will probably lap...