Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mike I warned Brett: "There's a lead slug corning over your left shoulder." He looked up, saw the sinker gliding past his head in slow motion, bided his time and coolly upped the plane's nose. The movement dropped the sinker gently into his lap. As he passed it back, he also gave me a short piece of string, with an invitation...
Sighted Sub, Sank Same. In Knoxville, Tenn., track and field officials disqualified Miler Jerry Long, who put on a stirring burst of speed while finishing a high-school race -because he had slipped into the race on the last lap when Teammate John Looney dropped...
Highhanded, aging, fabulously rich Claire Zachanassian returns to Gullen, the impoverished European town of her birth, to pour money into its lap-on one condition. Town and townspeople can divide a billion marks if they will kill Anton Schill, the man who in Claire's youth denied that her child was his and made her an outcast and a prostitute. When the town rejects such an offer at the expense of a much esteemed citizen, Claire does not argue; she can afford, she announces, to wait...
Back to the Brink. At voting time ten hands around the semicircular council table went up in favor of the U.S. resolution ; Sobolev sat impassively, his hands folded in his lap. A moment later, by raising his hand in opposition, he delivered Russia's 83rd U.N. veto. Then, when Sobolev dusted off his old resolution denouncing U.S. Arctic flights and calling for an immediate unprepared summit conference, the council glumly rejected it 9 to i, with Sweden abstaining...
...pause, the boy shot all three men, killing Owner Blair, wounding Kenney and Wilson. Giving up the thought of robbery, the boys fled. David ran home, after firing his gun aimlessly in the street, and was found by police as he sat on his grandmother's lap, crying. Robert hid in an abandoned cotton gin, six blocks from the grocery. The police got him out by dropping tear gas into the building...