Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game is basically meaningless. The winner does not get a 'Pot, nor skate a victory lap. All that a win claims is the bragging rights associated with being the third best hockey team in Boston...
...years and which he called "the best place in the world for my metier," has plans that are accordingly sumptuous. The Staatsoper and the Volksoper will play Mozart operas all season. The gilded halls of the Schonbrunn Palace, where the six-year-old Mozart once jumped into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa after one of his concerts, will be the setting for all his string quartets, as well as outdoor performances of Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro...
More than anything, however, emotion wins the Beanpot. It's depressing to play in the early consolation game next Monday, and it's the thrill of a lifetime to skate the victory lap with the coveted trophy. When the referee drops the puck for the opening faceoff and the shivers subside, Harvard needs huge reserves of emotion to bring the Pot home to Cambridge...
...eventually letting the Tiger swimmer pull out to a fifteen-yard lead. The Crimson fought back with John Blaney, out in lane seven, who slowly reeled in Derrick while a crowd of about 300 Princeton and Harvard fans were on their feet screaming wildly. On the final lap of the 40-lap race, Blaney and Derrick were even, but the Crimson fell short again, as Derrick touched in at 9:12.84, only .08 seconds ahead of Blaney, who swam his career best...
Once, sitting next to a nun, I opened my notebook and three unwrapped condoms fell into my lap. There is no doubt that my "roommates love to play these wacky practical jokes" story, though true, fell on deaf ears. She spent the next 45 minutes in the rest room...