Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season; 50,000 fans turned out to watch, and everybody who was anybody was there-Champion Surtees in his Ferrari; Britain's Graham Hill, the 1962 winner, in his B.R.M.; Jack Brabham, 1959 and 1960 champion, in his own Brabham-Climax. But Clark's practice lap had won him the pole position, and the starter's flag barely fluttered before he shot into the lead. By the 13th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. Twice, he shattered the official track record, and on the 84th lap, he zipped around the 2.4-mile course...
Checking the Checker. Across the finish line he sped, slowing almost to a stop when an official gave him the checkered flag of victory. In the pits, Chapman screamed and waved a sign with a big number 1 on it. The official had goofed: Clark still had a lap to go, and Surtees was closing in. Furious. Jimmy stomped down the throttle; the Lotus snarled around the track once more, coasted into the pits-the winner by a comfortable 31 sec. "Imagine," sighed an awed South African fan, "what Clark could do if he were feeling...
...problems "would not be practical," and Labor members demanded that unions be brought in on decisions to lay off workers and shut down lines. Beeching would brook no such interference. When he failed to win assurances of a hands-off policy, he dumped the whole railroad problem into the lap of Labor...
...Crimson's Ken Winters clearing 12 ft., 6 in. to take second place. The Terrier mile relay team beat a motley crew of Harvardmen in 3:34.4. Awori, Anderson, Lynch, and Neil Houston beat a Providence foursome at the same distance with Lynch going ahead in the last lap to win by fifteen yards...
...praises are sung from one end of Harvard to the other. Yet freshman swimmer Bill Shrout, who set a new mark in the 200-yard individual medley against Army last week, has had so little recognition that he might have been attacked by a shark during the second lap without anyone noticing...