Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Ormsbee loves life in the raw. As a youth, his hero tore around in a flivver, bootleg poison in his veins and "a big Polish girl on my lap and her breasts smelling of rich cigars." He was temperamental, even with the delicate Roxane: "I knocked her down on to the bed. She got up and I knocked her down again. . . . She wept. 'That's twice you've hit me. But I can't help it. I love Jon.' " So Abner picked her up tenderly and treated her "discolored...
...Cairo, a transport plane set down Wendell Willkie after the first 11,000-mile lap of his trip to Russia and China* as a dual representative of Franklin Roosevelt and America's loyal opposition. His wardrobe was a tourist's sun helmet and a rumpled, dark blue business suit with a torn pocket. Said the voice from the Midwest to the people of the Mideast: "I've come for a definite purpose. As a member of the party in opposition to the President, I want to say that there is no division in America on the question...
Rather than throw the whole problem into Congress' lap and wait for a long debate and another unsatisfactory compromise, he planned to act without Congress -to attack inflation under an executive order based on his wartime powers...
...storerooms pending a big memorial show next fall. By the time it had been catalogued and analyzed, it was evident that the museum had received the biggest plum the art world has caught since the late John G. Johnson's collection fell into the Philadelphia Museum's lap last year (TIME...
...President's Lap. Amid the Babel of statements, the fine frenzy, Franklin Roosevelt, finally sniffing a Congressional revolt, summoned eleven rationing bigwigs to the White House. After listening, instead of taking a clear-cut stand, he took an easier road, indicated approval of a drive for rubber scrap. Probable "action": a Presidential fireside chat...