Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bored Japanese diplomats wanted to go for a daily walk, and the bobbies had to walk with them. Round Hyde Park-five miles to the lap-the Japs churned their fat little legs. One made the circuit twice daily, another walked from Hyde Park to Richmond and back-16 miles...
...tensed--Vag stiffened, his eyes bulged. "Wha ... wha ... what!!!" he stammered, a look of horrified amazement wringing his face. He lunged for the paper, oblivious of the soup in his path and the wrath of its owner who could imagine even more pleasant things that delicious minestrone in his lap. But the gushing curses faded into an incredulous stare. The Vagabond was breathing heavily--"inhale, exhale." "It's unfair," he murmured, the paper already a twisted shred. "It's inhuman," he howled, glaring with bloodshot eyes at his awestruck companion...
Some figured that colorless John Bennett was merely filling in for the first lap, would toss the baton to Farley himself at convention time. Washington New Dealers-who want no part of Farley or a Farley lieutenant-made sweet cooing sounds to statesmanlike Owen D. Young, former General Electric board chairman, who might be persuaded to run if the nomination came on a dignified platter...
...time this season, took two hurdle seconds in excellent times; while Ted Bauer, four-event man, got a third and a fourth among the timber-toppers, and a third in the broad-jump. Gordy Lyle established himself as the top dash man, with an excellent fourth lap of the sprint relay, and a tie for second in the 220, while Steve Brooks snapped out of his recent slump with a 12 foot 6 inch hoist in the pole vault. Had the Crimson's Mike Ford been leaping, the home forces might have gathered more than one first place, chalked...
...Lap. In this wise, President Roosevelt had won a fortnight's breathing spell. Possibly he could sit back and deliberate calmly about the political labor problem...