Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blueprints," said one engineer. "They just explain what [the company] wants and leave it up to us to figure out a machine that will make it. Nothing like it has ever been made before." In the same way, other complicated problems are dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that can cut 2,800 Ibs. of metal down to a complex wing gear weighing 200 Ibs., with contoured surfaces, tricky drill holes, etc.
...nothing with the color green). When the only driver with a chance of catching up with Tony's point total for the season failed to qualify, Bet-tenhausen was in. But he still drove as if he had everything to lose. He took the lead on the fifth lap, by the twelfth stretched it to the straightaway's length, had lapped the whole field by the 49th. His winning time for the 100 miles:1 hr. 14min...
Flying the same Beechcraft Bonanza used by the late Bill Odom for his 1949 record hop from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J., Illinois Congressman Peter F. Mack Jr., 34, left Springfield on the first lap of his round-the-world "Abraham Lincoln Good Will Tour." The purpose: to visit the people of some 30 nations and convince them that "Americans don't want war any more than they do." He expects to be home by January with some results to report...
...Italian vacation last week, Britain's No. 2 Conservative, Anthony Eden, found himself in a crowded plane seated next to a King's Messenger. Eden dozed off, but awoke with a start when, one of the messenger's heavy briefcases fell off the rack into his lap. It was addressed to "His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs." Since Eden will certainly hold that job if the Conservatives win the general election three weeks hence, Tories thought it a favorable omen...
...Crimson's Ronald Berman scored the only American win in the running events when he came from last at the end of the first lap to catch a Cambridge opponent at the tape in a 1:54 half-mile...