Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rice and 17 men scampered into the small craft, which headed for the beach through a barrage of mortar and automatic-weapon fire. The Higgins boat milled around for another ten minutes, getting its share of near-misses. One Marine picked a half-dozen pieces of shrapnel from his lap, stared at them. Another said: "Oh God, I'm scared...
...bump-the-bumps its way with engaging roughness through the crowded bedrooms, offices and baths of wartime Washington. It is the first picture to be produced and directed, as well as written, by top flight Scripter Dudley Nichols. Nichols did not want the job, which was tossed into his lap, like somebody else's damp baby, and he is reported to be unhappy about the result...
...thrown by her horse, broke her leg, crawled five miles to her car, drove 35 miles to a hospital. In Portland, Ore., Paul H. Thorsen, treated for a broken bone in his knee, explained to hospital attendants that a girl friend had slipped and too abruptly sat on his lap...
...Indoctrination Schools at Princeton, Fort Schuyler, Tucson Arizona, and from duty direct present Company "E" began all over again the process of learning to read and to write. This time it was done without the aid of a pretty teacher who would on occasion take a student on her lap and in a place where an apple is of no value at all. The place was rainy, foggy, Boston, whose beautiful October weather has been mentioned in many poems and has even lent itself to the title of a book. But after the initial few days of rain and mist...
Head & Heart. This tearing trip-about 250 camp and hospital shows in eleven weeks-was no floodlighted 100-yd. dash, but just a fast lap in a very long race. In 1941 Hope got an Oscar "for humanity," for a record-breaking 562 benefits in two years. Probably the first entertainer to work with the armed forces, Hope has also been the most frequent. Using trains, cars, trucks, tanks, jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When...