Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategy of using Alan Engleberg, normally a freestyle sprinter, in his old specialty for the fly lap of the relay paid off, as the team of Bob Kaufmann, Engleberg, Bill Schellstede, and Bruce Hunter turned in a blistering time of 3:43.9 to beat the Bulldogs by more than two seconds and set new Harvard and pool records in the event. The old time, set last year by Kaufmann, McCartney, Elizalde, and Hunter was 3:47.3, nearly four seconds slower than the new mark...
...behind with three laps still to go. Suddenly the years of conditioning paid off. Zooming into the turns like a sprinter, Henk picked up a second on the next to last lap, shaved off another 1.3 sec. on the final lap. With one final burst, he shot across the finish line 17.7 sec. behind Kosichkin's time to become Holland's first world champion in skating since 1905. All Holland prepared to celebrate the victory of Henk van der Grift and his silver skates...
...expedition's most "revolutionary" find: a group of 40 female clay statuettes, all of the Asian Great Mother goddess, but naturalistically carved in a variety of poses. They show the deity as a young girl and mature woman, lying down, squatting asleep with a child on her lap and seated on a leopard throne. Some of the figurines have grotesquely exaggerated pendulous breasts and normally proportioned thighs and buttocks; others reverse the goddess' topography. Sometimes she is naked; at other times she wears a loincloth or even a white painted robe. Says one top authority on the Neolithic...
...could write ten sequels to The Tents of Wickedness in a year, and that hardly seems fair. But "Requiem for a Noun" has a lovely beginning: The cold brussels sprout rolled off the page of the book (by Faulkner) I was reading and laying inert and defunctive in my lap. Turning my head with a leisure at least three-fourths impotent rage, I saw him or rather the reverse, the toy the fat insolent flet and then above that the bland face beneath the shock of hair like tangible...
...mile relay, after a 2:01.7 leg by Harry Rich and a 2:00.7 by Gus Schumacher had given him a three-yard margin. Mullin looked exhausted on his turn, and was passed by Pitt's Don Adams with a lap and a half to go. But he responded to the challenge with a burst that carried him past Adams to a 15-yard margin. Mullin's split was 2:00.5; Howard covered the final 880 in 1:56.9 for a 7:59.8 triumph...