Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...station" to "station" (usually farmhouses or barns off the beaten track). Before they get out of eastern Europe, the travelers have usually been despoiled of their meager belongings by bribe-taking frontier officials. Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany, is the great clearing center for the semi-final lap to the Mediterranean...
...Jackson grew out of six Lowell lectures, given at Harvard when Arthur was 24. Schlesinger pounded out his first draft at 4,000-5,000 words a day, finished the book despite twins "tearing all over the place" or even "sitting on my lap." His wife, daughter of Harvard's late Physiologist Walter B. Cannon, wrote a children's book called Twins at Our House at the same time. They counted on its advance order of 6,000 copies to support his unprofitable studies-not dreaming that Jackson would sell 30,000 copies...
...schools who have been accepted by the College will be advised to wait until the fall before entering, on the theory that it is better for a class to enter as a unit. The fate of this ruling now lies, according to Dean Buck and Gummere, largely in the lap of Congress, and depends on the action they take on the draft. If by May 15 Selective Service Boards are continuing to draft 18 year olds, then the admission policy may be changed to allow high school seniors to get one or two terms in the College before they...
...nylons, one club member explained: "The merchants of Independence made them available so we wouldn't be outshone by the ladies of Washington." That night Harry Truman sent everybody off to the Shrine Circus. Mrs. Truman was very gay until a clown 'tried to sit on her lap. "That will be enough," said the First Lady firmly. Thereafter, and throughout the evening, the ladies noticed that Bess looked rather grim...
...thing I would really enjoy for one week-a dry lap...