Word: lapping
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...come together in a most unfortunate way. Many cite economic stress, which has parents working longer hours than ever before, kids spending more time in day care and everyone coming home too exhausted to engage in the kind of relationships that build social skills. "Kids aren't getting enough lap time," says Karen Bentley, a seasoned elementary school administrator in Miami, who sees increased aggression in young students...
Jerry McNamara sits on a ledge set into the platform wall, an accordion resting on his lap and a gray tweed hat hiding his downward-cast eyes from the pedestrian traffic. His fingers fly over the keys of his instrument as he embellishes a medley of holiday carols, tapping his foot beside a case scattered with coins and bills...
...task of penning Yeats’ biography was juggled between Yeats’ family and select literary critics before finally landing in the lap of Roy F. Foster, a historian of modern Ireland at the University of Oxford. On Wednesday, Foster spoke about his final volume in Askwith Lecture Hall as part of the Harvard Bookstore’s Author Series...
...goals in the first and second period, Grumet-Morris kept Harvard in the game. The most prominent example came off of an unlucky bounce of the puck, as Colgate’s Kyle Wilson—emerging from the penalty box—had the puck drop into his lap just outside the Harvard zone...
...None of us really want the risk of someone saying in 15 years' time, 'When we sat on Santa's knee ...'" Gail Thompson, organizer of a New Zealand town's Christmas grotto, on why children will not be allowed to sit on Santa's lap...