Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does one catch a unicorn? Simple. "A virgin girl is led to where he lurks, and there she is sent off by herself into the wood. He soon leaps into her lap when he sees her, and embraces her, and hence he gets caught...
...week's end Nixon, showing the first signs of weariness, climbed back aboard his plane and headed northeast. This week, on the last lap, he was to visit the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti...
Even Ch. Kippax ("Jock") Fearnought, 65 Ibs. of snuffling, bowlegged bulldog, got the kind of going-over that lavender-scented old ladies save for their lap dogs. A splendid anachronism from the days when Britons still baited bulls, 28-month-old Jock waddled into the ring without so much as a brier scratch or the toothmark of an honest alley fight on his tough red-and-white hide. Bored, and too lazy to walk a step more than necessary, he took the blue ribbon among nonsporting breeds...
Another of the Crimson's distance runners, Don French, continued the varsity's string of upsets when he sprinted past Yale's Marty Duckworth in the last lap of the two mile, taking...
...Fast for Rabbits. No doubt about it, Wes was anxious. After one blistering lap, he even got impatient with Northeastern's Dick Ollen, the mechanical rabbit who had served as such a fine pacesetter the last two times they ran. Wes took over the lead and hustled through the first quarter in a man-killing 56.6 seconds. If he had his way, no one was going to get close enough to nudge him with a free-swinging elbow; neither Gunnar Nielsen nor anyone else was going to have enough kick left to catch him in the stretch...