Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooper was all but born in a pilot's seat. A native of Oklahoma, his father was a lawyer, a county judge from Shawnee-and an amateur pilot. Gordo sat in his father's lap during voyages in an old Command-Aire biplane, took the stick himself by the time he was six. As a teenager, he worked odd jobs around the Shawnee airport to pay for lessons in a J-3 Piper Cub trainer. He was inspired, in part, by stories his father told about two famed acquaintances, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post. Gordo soloed "officially...
...last lap came, scientists determined that at least part of Faith 7's electrical system was gone. And just before the time came for the manual firing of rockets to slow the craft down before landing, the whole electrical system was reported out of order...
Mottley--clearly the star of the meet--made up an amazing 35 yards in the final lap of the relay as he came from last place to edge out Harvard's anchor man, Bill McAfee. The junior from Trinidad also led the meet record for the 440-yd. run with a time of 47.0 seconds...
...McCurdy pressed a tired Eddie Meehan into service in the two mile, and Meehan stumbled to a meet-clinching third place. Then Ogden ran an inspired :49.0 lap on the mile relay to lead the team to second place, and Harvard had won by three points...
...Ogden's real heroics had come earlier, in the 330 yard run. The field was very fast, and a bunched pack jumped out of a :53.0 first lap. Meehan, near the front, tired quickly, but Ogden, who was in sixth place at the quarter, finished with an incredible sprint to place second in 1:51.1, an amazing four seconds under the sophomore's previous best...