Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical case was a tank sergeant who went berserk after the body of his commander, decapitated by a shell, fell in his lap. The sergeant shrieked, jumped out of the tank, ran wildly in circles with shells falling around him. His comrades got him back into the tank and to a first-aid station. After three days of treatment, the sergeant was able to rejoin his unit...
...little girl, not more than eight, sat down on the bench and gently pulled the boy's head down in her lap and stroked his hair. Little bird chirps came from her lips as if she were saying: "Don't cry, don't cry." Chuck Horner was standing by the door with a grim expression on his face. "I never wanted to capture a town more than this in my life. But now. . . ." He made a helpless gesture...
Erotically, she was a child. As for the Emperor, less complicated women dropped in his lap like plums, but he had neither the skill nor the patience to make a good wife of Eugenie...
GUNDER HAEGG passes BOBBY KNOWLES as BILL HULSE matches strides with the galloping fireman at the end of the first lap. Trailing behind are Gil Dodds and Don Burnham...
...Race. Rice seldom sets the pace. Neither does Hagg. But after the first lap of the big race, lean Gunder decided to take the lead. A youngster named Wilt spurted past Hagg once, passed him again. But Hagg refused to be annoyed. With effortless ease he glided over the cinders, his fringe of long hair flapping, his voluminous shorts billowing like a spinnaker...