Word: lapping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...child on your lap?" one woman said, and then another asked, and another. The cameras flashed, and old women hugged her shoulders or said, "Bless your heart." A little girl asked, "Mommy, is that the girl from TV?" One old man told her that he had lost two sons and had given up on living but that her story made him ashamed to give...
...cried. It was not so much the pain but the feeling, the desolation, of being alone and helpless. She had never been alone. She had slept within reach of her baby sister. She was from a family where her mother would pull one of her teenage daughters into her lap and hold her just because it felt nice. Even after she had left home there had been Lori and Ruben...
...with my dad. I'd sit on his lap, and I'd drive. We're country." BRITNEY SPEARS, singer, in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, on why she drove with her infant son Sean on her lap...
...about Plame - whose husband, former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, was attacking the Administration case for war in Iraq - were nothing more than the effort to shape and beat back news stories that happens in any White House on any day. But Republicans were careful not to take a public victory lap, instead praising Fitzgerald's diligence...
...groomed Burner and 21 other varsity challengers--seven more than the number of seats that Democrats need to take control of the House. But Emanuel, a lifelong control freak, has a problem that could trip him at the finish line. Although he'll be the one taking the victory lap or the blame, it's not only his Democratic Party. His title is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)--the "D triple C," as it is known. The national party chairman is Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and Vermont Governor, who has not exactly muted his unself-conscious...