Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the hall, the mood was saner, except when a well-aimed egg broke in the lap of the theologian on the platform, bringing from Steve Allen a drawn-out denunciation of "this coward who threw the egg and ran," and from the victim an assurance that the missile was not rotten...
When the two men lined up in the chilly night, their sweat-soaked bodies reflected light from the flaring Olympic torch. Right from the start, Johnson took his position behind Yang. At the end of the third lap, Yang suddenly let his head loll down to his chest. "Come on, Ray!" yelled U.S. Olympic Basketball Coach Pete Newell in a voice that carried to the track. "Come on, boy. He's fading." As though he had been slapped, Yang snapped his head up and increased the pace. Johnson painfully lengthened his stride...
...until feeding time, then automatically warms it. When it is ready, it sounds an alarm to wake up mother. To make sure baby goes back to sleep, the Evenflo-Lullaby bottle plays Brahms's Lullaby. For the household pets, the new est drinks are Dog Nog and Cat Lap-canned milk for animals, develooed by onetime New York Advertising Man Arthur D. Talbott. While conducting market research on milk use, Talbott discovered that 25% of evaporated milk was bought to feed animals, realized that there was a rich market for a special pet milk. It is cheaper than regular...
...space race, the Russians clearly won last week's lap (see SCIENCE), as the Americans won the previous week's. Earthbound spectators checked off their score cards: ¶Space vehicles launched: U.S. 26, Soviet Union 8. ¶Vehicles still in space: U.S. 16, Soviet Union...
...Washington the Administration saluted the Russians for "a fine job." And a fine job it was, aiding not merely the Russian standing in the space race but the longer-range human adventures of science and exploration. Every lap completed in the space race, by whichever competitor, adds to the sum of mankind's knowledge and carries him closer to the stars...