Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reassured her: "I can see boats, nurse. It won't be long now-everything will be all right." Piped a 13-year-old girl: "Don't worry, nurse. The British Navy won't let us down." A London publisher held a dead baby in his lap, pretended to feed it from its bottle to comfort the dying mother. Another Londoner tried to help by caring for the dead. "I said as much of the burial service as I could remember," he said, "before dropping them overboard...I burried 24 persons, men, women and children, during...
...Zola). Before the picture got into production, the Spanish War was over. Wanger paid Dieterle $50,000, started over again with two MARCH OF TIME radio scripters to tell the story in MOT fashion, then switched back to Sheean. After Hitler invaded Poland, Wanger dumped everything into the capacious lap of Director Alfred Hitchcock. He, together with Charles Bennett, James Hilton, Robert Benchley and Ben Hecht, evolved Foreign Correspondent. Fourteen writers and $1,500,000 away from Personal History, it has nothing to do with Sheean and is easily one of the year's finest pictures...
...both sentimentalists and experts were disappointed. Not one of the six starters completed the 90 miles. My Sin, Notre Dame and Tinker Toy broke down in the first heat. In the second heat, Notre Dame was unfit to start, Tinker Toy dropped out in the first lap, My Sin in the third. In the last 30 miles, Notre Dame finally got going, roared around at 66 m.p.h.-but it was too late. The cup went to the winner of the first two heats, Sidney Allen's Hotsy Totsy...
...only alternative to allowing South America to fall into a victorious Hitler's economic lap is to form a hemisphere cartel to even up the bargaining power between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, between the Americas and the totalitarian States. The U. S. would have to foot the bill for such a program, possibly by some sort of AAA. Whether South America will be willing to place her economic future in U. S. hands at the forthcoming Havana Conference is uncertain...
...alcohol). When he returned to the track two-and-a-half minutes later, he found Rex Mays, Mauri Rose, Ted Horn and Joel Thorne ahead of him. For 60 miles he chased them. As they momentarily dropped out, one by one, for refueling, Shaw whizzed ahead, gained a one-lap lead on Mays...