Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first serious proposal for compulsory saving-a cross between taxation and borrowing as means of financing a war-was dumped last week into the lap of a Congress already laboring with a seven-billion-dollar tax program. Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan introduced the first deferred-pay bill designed to take money away from war workers now and give it back to them in the post-war slump...
This was too much for Senator Earl Richardson of Philadelphia (pop. 3,711). Senator Richardson stopped his whittling, brushed the shavings off his lap and his desk. He snorted: "Do you know what time Pearl Harbor was attacked? It was about 7:15 o'clock in the morning. That's a mighty funny time for soldiers or anybody else to be in the movies...
...Senate," detailed to New Orleans to investigate the machinations of the Louisiana Purchasing Company. Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs in the end, though; the investigation is called off, and Loganberry remains a frustrated Republican Presidential candidate...
Entered in the two-mile race, Dodds did everything a runner shouldn't do: he started out pumping like a six-day bike rider, zigzagged all over the track like a halfback, and finally-a full lap behind on the gun lap and staggering like a punch-drunk fighter-tripped Don Lash just a few yards from the tape...
Last week, matching strides with Miler MacMitchell, Mr. Dodds proved that he had learned a lot since his correspondence-schooling. Taking the lead on the third lap, he pulled farther & farther away from the field. At the halfway mark he was twelve yards in front. With only three laps to go, he had stretched the gap to 15 yards. Trying desperately to overtake him, MacMitchell ran the final quarter in 60.3 sec., but it was not fast enough. Mr. Dodds beat him by two yards. His time: 4:08.9. World's indoor record...