Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body and held under his right arm (whence comes the name: Uilleann is based on the Gaelic word for elbow). The bellows replaces a Scotsman's lungs in filling the leather bag that drives the sound. The bag goes under his left arm; out of it and across his lap comes a collection of wood and brass tubes. Some of these are the drones, which sound continuously in the background; the others, called regulators, are activated by brass keys studded along their length and are used intermittently for emphasis. Last of all comes the melody-making chanter, an oboe-like...
...mother is preoccupied with the chain of continuity that gurgles in her lap. Bette has just noticed that Sophie's ears, like little wings on her bald head, resemble those of Ruth Midler's as a child. Bette softens and tenses as she talks of never appreciating her mother's sacrifice. "When my baby was born," she says, "I was so tired. I kept thinking, 'How did she do it? How could she raise four children and still be standing?' I finally got the message, but it was too late...
...frail old man sat in a wheelchair, his emaciated right arm hanging limply in his lap, his eyes staring vacantly overhead. His lip was curled, as if he had lost control of his facial muscles, and his bald pate bore the green marks that are used for radiation treatments. As a nurse guided his wheelchair out of a hospital elevator, only the presence of an escort with an official- looking radio suggested that this was a special patient: William Casey, until last week the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
Sontag, who lived in Beirut for 40 years, sat quietly, saying nothing and slowly wringing his hads on his lap. He appeared well, but confused...
...time I found a pizza on John Harvard's lap," says Crooks. "Who on earth would want to feed him?" The veteran administrator also reports seeing jack o'lanterns hanging from the gargoyles atop the tower of Memorial Hall. "How in God's name did those pumpkins get up there? I've heard tales that one of our mountaineering boys who passed on might have done it, but of course I don't have proof...