Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later, Eleanor Roosevelt had lunch with Mrs. Pusey and the Harvard Dames at 17 Quincy Street. One of the maids tripped a few feet away from Mrs. Roosevelt while carrying a wooden salad bowl, catapulting its contents not far from her lap. Mrs. Pusey's reaction, a tersely graceful comment: "The salad, really and truly, is tossed...
...TIME'S CHARGE THAT I TRIED TO MANEUVER MYSELF INTO HARRY TRUMAN'S LAP AT A DEMOCRATIC LUNCHEON IS OFFENSIVELY FALSE. I GREETED MR. & MRS. TRUMAN AT HIS REQUEST. TALLULAH BANKHEAD NEW YORK CITY...
...MIAMI HERALD: THE results yesterday rebuke, if they do not repudiate, the Eisenhower Administration. It has not balanced the budget or materially reduced expenditures. It has let a wishy-washy foreign policy lap to the shores of foreign...
...bourbon drawl, breathed spite upon the opposition. "Dirt is too clean a word for him," she said of Vice President Richard Nixon. Fumbling for an exit bit, Tallu focused upon the seated form of Harry S. Truman, listed sharply in a maneuver designed to land in his lap but, defeated by his red-faced agility,* succeeded only in a bear hug. Bawled she: "The warmth that comes out of that man just kills...
Thomas got off in front, set a killing pace for the quarter (56 sec.) and the half (1:58). Then Lincoln and Elliott surged past him, battled for the lead through the third quarter. But as the bell clanged for the final lap, Elliott went into high gear. His muscular legs churning, he left the field behind with an astounding 55.5-sec. final quarter. As 20,000 fans shrieked approval, Elliott finished 12 yds. in front in an unbelievable 3:54.5, far under the 3:58 listed record of Australia's John Landy. Lincoln was second...