Word: lapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, beneath a broiling sun, 94 cyclists got under way, followed by a motorcade of 19 sound trucks, blaring the sponsors' commercials, and a traveling variety show, to while away the time between laps. The first day's lap was uneventful. On the second day, as the race wound on through Communist-infested territory to Baclieu, Vietnamese troops stood at the ready every 100 yards along the route. Cambodian Champion Soun (he has no other name) and a Saigon policeman named Ngo Than Liem were racing well ahead of the field as they passed the town...
...moment, a Tommy gun chattered from a nearby hut. As the Vietnamese soldiers returned the fire, most of the cyclists, including Champ Soun, dived for the ditches, but Policeman Liem jumped back on his bike and pedaled hell-for-leather toward the finish. The only man to finish the lap, and thus win a prize of 15,000 piasters ($428), he got down from his bike and fainted dead away. "I'm no hero," he told the cheering Vietnamese fans when he came to again. "I just kept going because I was afraid there would be more explosions...
Malenkov the "New Homebody," showed him sitting in a kitchen piled high with dirty dishes (labeled "consumer-goods demand"), with squalling children armed with hammers ("satellite unrest," "collectivized farming") climbing into his lap. In a Republican Administration, Liberal Republican Dowling's main target is the "division of the Republican Party between the liberals and the McCarthy right wing...
...situation in Guatemala continues to deteriorate, the ultimate possibility of unilateral U.S. action cannot be ruled out. Said U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy in Guatemala City last week: "Public opinion in the U.S. might force us to take some measures to prevent Guatemala from falling into the lap of international Communism. We cannot permit a Soviet republic to be established between Texas and the Panama Canal." Peurifoy declined to say what possible measures he had recommended to Washington, but it is a fact that Guatemala rarely has more on hand than eight days' supply of gasoline...
...Orleans, the University of Kansas' skinny (6 ft. 1 in., 150 Ibs.) Runner Wes Santee dashed the final quarter-mile lap in an astonishing 55 seconds and ran the third fastest mile ever recorded by an American...