Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
Churning through the water with the ease of a porpoise, Marshall soon left most of the others well behind. Lap after lap, over the 55-yd. pool, he kept reaching for the water, hand open and fingers outstretched like a man gracefully reaching for a cup of tea. As the minutes ticked by, it became apparent that Marshall was also reaching for some new records...
...head, which "relieves the inner organs from the continual pressure of gravity and gives the blood a chance to circulate from bottom to top, instead of top to bottom." For another fifteen minutes she sits crosslegged, yogi fashion, with her spine straight and her hands in her lap...
...thirds of the way around the three-lap course, right in front of the medieval town hall, it happened that Pietrino came shoulder-to-shoulder with the rider for a ward he had once deserted. Pietrino suddenly found himself clamped against the inside rail, was knocked off his horse and carried away with a broken ankle...
...this biggest, gram blindest class has decided that it will make up its own mind about certain issues of some importance. It has had these issues dropped in its lap by the College, and has heard evidence; it has made up its mind on some issues now, and will decide others in the future. Harvard has provided techniques for thinking and deciding. The questions on which decisions are to be made have properly been left to the individual's selection...