Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davies was summoned to the Kremlin. He had met Stalin five years ago, the climax of Mission I to Moscow. Then Joseph Stalin had impressed the Ambassador as "a strong mind . . . sharp, shrewd and above all . . . wise . . . exceedingly kindly and gentle. . . . A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him." Now Mr. Davies found his old acquaintance as amiable as ever, still wearing a military tunic and boots, but looking healthier, a trifle stouter. Certainly, said Joe Davies later, "he doesn't look like a man who is worried...
...dream nearly succeeded. Industry by industry, the workers moved into industrial unions. Steel, automobiles, rubber fell into his lap. Then, in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt, who received $600,000 from Lewis for his 1936 campaign, denounced the division in labor with his remark: "A plague on both your houses...
...oily waters of Pearl Harbor still lap the misshapen, rusted hulks of three great warships. They are all that remains of the heart-sickening wreckage of Dec. 7, 1941, when the U.S. suffered the worst naval defeat in its history. Sixteen other vessels hit that day have been scrapped, sent to the mainland for repair, or returned to the fleet...
...long past midnight. In his Wardman Park Hotel apartment, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan sat sunk in an easy chair with a biography of George Washington in his lap. Piled beside him were other biographies: lives of Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt. The Senator's broad dome nodded drowsily. His cigar...
Afterwards the Bishop, chairman of the General Commission of Army & Navy Chaplains, climbed into a transatlantic plane. He was off on the first lap of a world tour, suggested by President Roosevelt, to visit U.S. forces in Great Britain, North Africa, India and China, as official representative of more than 30 million U.S. Protestants...