Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the Great Emerald Buddha, Palladium of the Kingdom, had been dressed in his summer costume of emerald-encrusted gold filigree-a ritual uninterrupted by political tension following the recent death of Strongman Sarit Thanarat. Though a scandal involving Sarit's finances has been tossed into the lap of his successor, General Thanom Kittakachorn, and in the north a pocket of pro-Red outlaws persists, anti-Communist Thailand is still the stablest country in the neighborhood. But it would -have a hard time holding up amid the other falling dominoes...
...past three years, and for five of the last six. All three had broken the Sebring distance-covered record that Ferrari, of course, had established three years ago. The winning Ferrari set a new average speed record of 92.364 miles per hour; the third car set a new lap record of close to 101 m.p.h. over the brutal 5.2-mile claw-shaped maze of airport runways and interchanges...
...bold, wreck-scarred Texan, outlined a simple strategy for the race. Nine Cobras were to tool along at 6,000 r.p.m., fast enough to place respectably, but slow enough to keep from breaking down on a track that demands 28 grating changes of gear to get through a single lap. The other two cars would bear down hard and stay in front of Ferrari's G.T.s at any cost-for as long as they held together...
Most of the Caribbean islands throb to the rallying cries of independence and nationalism. But the French West Indies - Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guadeloupe's six dependencies - seem as placid as the emerald waters that lap their pearl-white beaches. In the westernmost backwater of Charles de Gaulle's French community 4,250 miles from Paris, natives and tourists sit at sunny, sidewalk tables placidly nibbling crusty French bread and sipping flat French beer; in narrow streets, the scent of bougainvillaea mingles with the fumes of beeping Simcas and Peugeots. And when le grand Charles stops over in Guadeloupe...
...plan for a multilateral nuclear force in Europe, kept Britain out of the Common Market, undermined the U.S. effort in South Viet Nam by arguing that the country should be neutralized, recognized Red China. Last week he tipped three more bowls of hot porridge into the U.S. lap. In a single busy day, France moved toward a major new economic agreement with Russia, hinted that it might torpedo U.S.-supported tariff talks in Geneva this spring, made it clear that it will support the admission of Red China to the United Nations. Beyond all that, De Gaulle hopes to increase...