Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue before the jury in Kansas City, Mo. was that of prison or death. Burly U.S. Attorney Edward L. Scheufler demanded death, and started calling witnesses to spell out the crime in squalid detail. A nun's face was pale as she sat with her crucifix in her lap and told of being tricked into releasing Bobby Greenlease from school to go to his "sick mother." Who had fooled her? Sister Morand hesitated, looked around, half rose and pointed at Mrs. Heady. Bonnie Heady faced her accuser impersonally. Carl Hall studied his shoes...
...applause, with an occasional, highly proper cry of "hey, hey" (cheering is considered improper in austere Ottawa). After he placed a wreath of red carnations and white chrysanthemums on the Cenotaph, Canada's war memorial, Ike joined Mamie and the Governor General in an open Cadillac, tucked a lap robe around their knees and rode off through the city to Rideau Hall, the Governor General's official residence...
...first lap of his 38,000-mile world tour, Vice President Richard Nixon got a warm welcome to New Zealand, won friends by whipping about the country on a three-day sightsee, rubbing noses with Maoris, and making speeches in favor of world trade. On the next stop, Australia, the reception was just as warm except for a cold blast from the Communists, who passed out leaflets about "Tricky Dick" and told him, Australian fashion, to go back home: "Nick off, Nixon...
...Barzini knows that the U.S. does not fit that dream because its nature and its tasks are different from anything that ever went before. He writes: "We, in Europe, know little and decide nothing . . . They, the Americans, are alone in the world and carry war and peace on their lap, and . . . nobody can really advise, help or guide them...
...Cable for Rhee. Afterward, Dean drove to his hillside home in Berkeley, which he had never seen, with his sleeping grandson on his lap. Next morning, the general ate breakfast in his patio and received a procession of reporters and relatives. Occasionally a feminine voice-his wife's or daughter's-called from the window to ask whether he wanted bacon or sausage with his eggs, or what he wanted to do with his laundry. His two grandchildren crawled in his lap, and he tried to teach young Dean Williams to call him "harabaji," which is Korean...