Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headed straight for the U.S. housewife's doorstep and Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes's lap this week is a milk crisis of Grade-A quality...
Last year in the Army game Harry said he saw one of the best functioning teams of Harvard history. "Incidentally," he added, "I don't think I've ever watched a better game--even in spite of the lap sided score." Then, returning to tomorrow's prospects against Yale he said. "I think we have a team that functions just as well as this year, but Yale has its best team in a long time...
...morning seven handcars were ready, equipped with benches holding three each and warm, brown lap blankets. Four men were assigned to each handcar as a pumping crew. A few miles from the front, at 6:30, the Japanese fired three or four shots at the tracks and officials decided not to risk Willkie's life. The party left the handcars and boarded automobiles -the Chinese had cut roads below the surface so that troops could evade Japanese eyes...
Behind the wild, gloomy Caucasus Mountains lies a sunny valley that not only pours oil into Russia's lap but has cradled many of Russia's top leaders. From Georgia, one of a multitude of small republics and autonomous regions in the Caucasus, Joseph Stalin went forth to power. Georgia also gave to Russia Grigory Ordzhonikidze, late great commissar of heavy industry, and Ordzhonikidze gave his name to the town at the junction of two highways. These and other native sons helped to make the Caucasus strong by granting the states autonomy within the Soviet Union. Last week...
From his car Franklin Roosevelt, with a sailor's appreciative eye, took in the trim new subchaser PC-467, snugged tidily to the wharf, her brightwork glistening in the hot September sun. Radio technicians placed a battery of microphones across his lap. Said the President of the U.S. to the Crown Princess of Norway and the people of the world...