Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Pasadena, beauteous Brenda seemed a cinch to win the Pacific Coast A.A.U. 100-yd. free-style championship, with arch-rival Ann not entered in the race. But Brenda had to put every last ounce of energy into the final lap to beat Marilyn Sahner of San Francisco by a stroke in 1:02.3. That clipped two-tenths of a second off Ann Curtis' U.S. record...
Said Defense Lawyer Comandini: "Were it not for Fascism, which encouraged political crime, Koch might have been an honest man. I have a photograph of him when a boy where he has his head on his mother's lap. That is the Koch I am defending. A lad gone astray under a tyranny which encouraged cruelty...
...Truman's second swing, a lieutenant deftly hammered the descending bottle from below. Champagne spurted up his sleeve, on the sponsor's black Shantung suit, and, as intended, on the plane's nose. Daughter Margaret rode home with the stubborn first bottle in her lap...
...bomber looked like men from Mars. Every available inch of their 37-ton, four-engine plane, the Aries,* was filled with scientific equipment, much of it secret. When they left Whitehorse in the Yukon one day last week and landed 20 hours later at Shrewsbury, England, on the last lap of a two-week tour of Arctic exploration, they had accomplished more than many an explorer of a generation ago did in a lifetime. They had made three trips into the Arctic, found the present accurate location of the constantly shifting North Magnetic Pole...
...carnivalized Symphony Hall sipping claret lemonade, drinking Black Horse Ale, eating Hood's ice cream, satisfying the lusts of the palate along with the pleasures of the ear. They chattered through the waltzes and they stood for "Fair Harvard" and they were careless and relaxed all night in the lap of familiarity...