Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Secretary of the Chilean Embassy in Washington was giving a cocktail party. The talk was of Virginia hams and the weather. Suddenly a young reporter spilled his Scotch & water into a girl's lap. Wailed the girl: "What a mess!'' Said Host Fernando Ortuzar, who had been looking elsewhere: "Which mess, madam, London or Argentina...
...Whirlaway, $561,161; Seabiscuit, $437,730; Sun Beau, $376,744; Alsab, $350,015; Equipoise, $338,610; Challedon, $334,660; Phar Lap, $332,350; Gallant Fox, $328,165; Shut Out, $317,507; Busher...
...their original $700,000,000 request to $320,000,000. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton and Britain's Philip Noel-Baker agreed to offer Russia $240 million and still insisted that Russia admit observers. The conference ended with the still-unsettled Russian question in the lap of the Central Committee...
...messed up," he said. "Maybe I can help my boy make something of his. I want my people to be proud of me." Proudly, Tillie Majczek sat in her front room with its bright, ugly rugs, its immaculate curtains, and looked at him, her hands folded in her lap...
Thanks to his reclaimed fjader, Hägg said after the race that the four-minute mile was no longer a problem: "I believe I could have done it today if there had been more competition." Then, to prove he had plenty left, he sprinted an extra lap in a triumphal shower of torn programs...