Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point the first wave of the Russian tide washed to the foot of the Carpathian wall. Out on the flats of the Ukraine other waves began to lap at Odessa...
...road back had been very grueling. The last long lap in the Ukraine had not been a successful retirement but a major defeat, like Stalingrad...
...almost as if Gyp the Blood had wired that he would be a house guest. In Mexico City last week David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of Mexico's Big Three mural-ists,* revealed that he is about to visit the U.S. on the last lap of an "Art for Victory" tour of the American continents. Muralist Siqueiros (pronounced See Kay-ros), who was arrested for leading an armed attack on the Mexico City hideaway of the late Leon Trotsky which resulted in the kidnapping murder of the late Sheldon Harte, Trotsky's U.S. secretary, will visit Manhattan...
...There is no doubt in my mind that the President will run. Perhaps there is a doubt in his mind. . . . As for me, I am in the lap of the gods...
...weekly Washington "directives" on how to slant news for overseas. Eight weeks ago, the London office's three best men quit over the same issue. Davis ordered Sherwood to fire Barnes, Warburg and Johnson. Sherwood refused. Forthwith Davis put the whole problem in Franklin Roosevelt's lap...